Albert Einstein Quotes

Famous Quotes by Albert Einstein :

Here are some motivational quotes by Albert Einstein you may like.

You never fail until you stop trying.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

Where there’s a will there’s a way.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

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

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

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

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

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

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

I believe in one thing, that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

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

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. 

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

A human being is part of a whole called by us “Universe.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else, unless it is an enemy.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. 

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

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

I salute the man who is going through life always helpful, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.

God always takes the simplest way.

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

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I most seriously believe that one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been truth, goodness, and beauty.

Schools may favor such freedom by encouraging independent thought.

Love brings much happiness, much more than pining brings pain.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

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.

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

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty – at least for me.

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

If only I could give you some of my happiness, so that you would never be sad and wistful.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

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

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

At our age, the devil doesn’t give you much time off!

Destiny seems to bear some grudge against the two of us. But this will make things all the more beautiful later on, when all obstacles and worries have been overcome.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Information is not knowledge.

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

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

A little knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.

Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, an attitude which has never again left me.

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

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

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.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.

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.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Solitude can be tolerated only up to a certain limit, you know. 

The eternal mystery of the universe is its comprehensibility.

This life is not such that we ought to complain when it comes to an end for us or for a loved one; rather, we may look back in satisfaction when it has been bravely and honorably withstood.

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

Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

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

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

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.

On Mahatma Gandhi after his assassination: Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those super personal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.

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

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Here are some motivational quotes by some famous Authors and Leaders. I hope you will like them.

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