Albert Einstein quotes

• “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

• “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

• “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

• “You have to learn the rules of the game, and then play better than anyone else.”

• “That is the way to learn the most. When you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.”

• “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

• “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

• “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

• “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”

• “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.”

• “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

• “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

• “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

• “You never fail until you stop trying.”

• “Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work.”

• “Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”

• “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”

• “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

• “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

• “A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.”

• “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

• “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

• “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

• “Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.”

• “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

• “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

• “I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.”

• “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

• “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

• The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

• A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

• The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance. 

• I believe in intuition and inspiration. At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

• The only real valuable thing is intuition.

• I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity.

• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

• The man of science is a poor philosopher.

• As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

• The destiny of civilized humanity depends more than ever on the moral forces it is capable of generating.

• A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

• Creativity is intelligence having fun.

• As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. 

• It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

• The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

• Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.

• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

• A man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it is an enemy.

• I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind.

• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

• What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

• I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating [in the process] has always seemed to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.

• Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

• Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of striving to fulfill wishes of the material kind.

• I am happy at the thought that the worst worries are over for my parents.

• Live with purpose. Don’t let people or things around you get you down.

• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

• On how he sees himself: A person with no roots anywhere…a stranger everywhere.

• Death is a reality… Life ends definitely when the subject, by his actions, no longer affects his environment… He can no longer add an iota to the sum total of his experience.

• My passionate interest in social justice and social responsibility has always stood in curious contrast to a marked lack of desire for direct association with men and women.

• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

• With fame, I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

• The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

• The eternal mystery of the universe is its comprehensibility.

• Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up.

• Copernicus, through his work and the greatness of his personality, taught man to be modest.

• This is quite natural: everybody likes to do that for which he has a talent.

• People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

• To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

• What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

• The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.

• Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance, and self-criticism.

Albert Einstein About Quotes

• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

• Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them.

• Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.

• “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”

• “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

• “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks a real advance in science.”

• “The most important question is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

• “The only source of knowledge is experience.”

• “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

• I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be.

• The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

• Studying, and striving for truth and beauty in general, is a sphere in which we are allowed to be children throughout life.

• Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

• Schools may favor such freedom by encouraging independent thought.

• The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral.

• In the matter of physics [education], the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see.

• The students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to enshrine the hopes and ideals of the nation.

• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

• I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

• Equations are more important to me because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

• The progress of science presupposes the possibility of unrestricted communications of all results and judgments – freedom of expression and instruction in all realms of intellectual endeavor.

• In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.