"If only I had known, I should..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
More by Albert Einstein
“Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.”
“Time is what the clock says.”
“If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.”
More on Regret
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
“I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but toreceive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.”
“The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.”
More on Life
“We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe”
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.”
“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”