380 quotes
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Leadership
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Overcoming Obstacles
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."
- Albert Einstein
Leadership
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change"
- Albert Einstein
Change
"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think!"
- Albert Einstein
Education
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
Perseverance
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
- Albert Einstein
Adaptation
"Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
""Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.""
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"People falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"You can’t blame gravity for falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
- Albert Einstein
Personal Growth
"You are living. You occupy space. You have a mass. You matter."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Be a voice, not an echo."
- Albert Einstein
Leadership
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
- Albert Einstein
Nature
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
""The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.""
- Albert Einstein
Generosity
""Only a life lived for others, is a life worthwhile.""
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains."
- Albert Einstein
Perseverance
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Adaptation
"Failure is success in progress."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking"
- Albert Einstein
Change
"Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
Hope
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
- Albert Einstein
Goals
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living."
- Albert Einstein
Service
"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
- Albert Einstein
Growth
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."
- Albert Einstein
Future
"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."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."
- Albert Einstein
Contribution
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"I like to think that the moon is there, even if I am not looking at it."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
Overcoming Obstacles
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Optimism
"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."
- Albert Einstein
Independence
"Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"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 been before."
- Albert Einstein
Independence
"“To live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.”"
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”"
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity"
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"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."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"“Everything is as though everything is a miracle.”"
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"“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.”"
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
"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."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Peace cannot be kept by force: It can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein
Peace
"The only source of knowledge is experience."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
- Albert Einstein
Integrity
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"You never fail until you stop trying."
- Albert Einstein
Perseverance
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence."
- Albert Einstein
Aspirations
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
- Albert Einstein
Determination
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Never memorize something that you can look up."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, It just transforms from one form to another."
- Albert Einstein
Transformation
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."
- Albert Einstein
Hard Work
"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."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"When there is love, there is no imposition."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"The important thing is to never stop questioning [or learning]."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used to create them."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything in a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Thanks to my having hit upon the fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you [Arnold Sommerfeld] and others enormously overestimate my scientific abilities, to the point where it makes me somewhat uncomfortable."
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind ... is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own everyday desires ..."
- Albert Einstein
Aspirations
"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: we are here for the sake of others."
- Albert Einstein
Connection to Earth
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is always limited."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV; with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Science as something already in existence, already completed, is the most objective, most impersonal thing that we humans know. Science as something coming into being, as a goal, however, is just as subjectively, psychologically conditioned, as all other human endeavors."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
- Albert Einstein
Simplicity
"Be a unique voice."
- Albert Einstein
Originality
"Dancers are the athletes of God."
- Albert Einstein
Strength
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."
- Albert Einstein
Belief in Self
"The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity… out of discord, harmony… and out of difficulty, opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Leadership
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein
Peace
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left"
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
- Albert Einstein
Transformation
"Education is what one does after he has forgotten everything he learned at school."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"I do not know what weapons World War III is going to be fought with, but World War IV can be fought with sticks or stones."
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
"“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”"
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”"
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"I like to think that the Moon is there, even if I am not looking at it."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."
- Albert Einstein
Determination
""In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.""
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Your imagination is your preview of your life."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
- Albert Einstein
Respect
"Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you've got to give it."
- Albert Einstein
Respect
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Once you stop learning, you start dying."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
- Albert Einstein
Spirituality
"You never fail until you stop trying"
- Albert Einstein
Perseverance
"Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"The environment is everything that isn’t me."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Know where to find the information and how to use it. That’s the secret of success."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Creativity is contagious, pass it on."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."
- Albert Einstein
Ambition
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Wenn die Menschen nur über das sprächen, was sie begreifen, dann würde es sehr still auf der Welt sein."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Zwei Dinge sind unendlich, das Universum und die menschliche Dummheit, aber bei dem Universum bin ich mir noch nicht ganz sicher."
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
"There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks."
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
"People who dream of success are rarely successful. Successful people are the ones who do what they dream."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
- Albert Einstein
Perseverance
"It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."
- Albert Einstein
Positivity
"The thing about motivated people chasing their dream is they look crazy to lazy people."
- Albert Einstein
Aspirations
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Education is an important route to success, but let’s not forget that the education system is imperfect. It doesn’t suit everyone’s learning style, which can be frustrating and demoralizing at times. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"Time is an illusion."
- Albert Einstein
Time Management
"A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for."
- Albert Einstein
Strength
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects."
- Albert Einstein
Strength
""Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.""
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."
- Albert Einstein
Achievement
"Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it’s stupid."
- Albert Einstein
Belief in Self
"The most important thing is to never stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
- Albert Einstein
Focus
"Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you results. Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing."
- Albert Einstein
Strength
"If A equals success in life, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein
Motivation
"Our task must be to free ourselves … by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
""I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.""
- Albert Einstein
Respect
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life."
- Albert Einstein
Family
"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
- Albert Einstein
Motivation
"Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
Personal Growth
"Working virtually 100% indoors, in a seated position and usually talking on a phone, writing or typing on a computer paves the way for some of the top injuries … to develop."
- Albert Einstein
Health
"Concern for man himself and his safety must always for the chief interest of all technical endeavours."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities...and know how to compensate for his deficiencies."
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler."
- Albert Einstein
Simplicity
"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows and to improve their conditions of life."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
- Albert Einstein
Faith
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Out of clutter, find simplicity."
- Albert Einstein
Simplicity
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"The person with dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts."
- Albert Einstein
Belief in Self
"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while."
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."
- Albert Einstein
Happiness
"La vida es como montar en bicicleta. Para mantener el equilibrio tienes que avanzar."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"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 been before.’"
- Albert Einstein
Independence
"It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"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 been before"
- Albert Einstein
Independence
""Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.""
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"The important thing is to not stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Try not to become a person of success, but rather, try to become a person of value"
- Albert Einstein
Personal Growth
"Creativity is intelligence having fun"
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"God always takes the simplest way."
- Albert Einstein
Faith
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"Creativity is intelligence, having fun"
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
- Albert Einstein
Contribution
"In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Optimism
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not people or things."
- Albert Einstein
Happiness
"If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. Where X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn’t call it research."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"The human being is part of the whole, called by us the 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Our task must be to free ourselves ... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act."
- Albert Einstein
Responsibility
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work."
- Albert Einstein
Hard Work
"Everybody is a genius."
- Albert Einstein
Belief in Self
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Don’t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Contribution
""We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.""
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Paper is to write things down that we need to remember."
- Albert Einstein
Productivity
"Logic gets you from A to B, imagination gets you anywhere"
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for"
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things"
- Albert Einstein
Happiness
"To awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge is the supreme art of the teacher."
- Albert Einstein
Joy
"If you want to be happy, tie it to a goal rather than to people or things."
- Albert Einstein
Happiness
"No one ever tried anything new if they never made a mistake."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving"
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self."
- Albert Einstein
Liberation
"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Nothing ever happens unless something is moved."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."
- Albert Einstein
Reflection
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Without deep reflection, one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
""You can't blame gravity for falling in love.""
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
- Albert Einstein
Bravery
"The problem with patriotism is that it invariably leads to war."
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"A ship is always safe at shore. But that is not what it is built for."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid."
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"The more I study, the more I realize how much I don’t know."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the globe, man would have no more than four years of life to live."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving"
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"“Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.”"
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
- Albert Einstein
Integrity
"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning people are all the same."
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Love is a better teacher than duty."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."
- Albert Einstein
Taking Risks
"The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before."
- Albert Einstein
Independence
"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."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
- Albert Einstein
Personal Growth
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."
- Albert Einstein
Peace
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution"
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living."
- Albert Einstein
Contribution
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, observing, there we enter the realm of art and science."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."
- Albert Einstein
Contentment
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"Sometimes, surrounded by all this good cheer, I’m puzzled by some of the things that I hear, and wonder, my mind for a moment not hazy, if I and not they could really be crazy."
- Albert Einstein
Reflection
"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss and by disposition a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever."
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am."
- Albert Einstein
Belief in Self
"The greatest scientists are artists as well."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech."
- Albert Einstein
Responsibility
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin."
- Albert Einstein
Joy
"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
""If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?""
- Albert Einstein
Reflection
"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
""In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.""
- Albert Einstein
Optimism
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
""Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.""
- Albert Einstein
Balance
""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 been before.""
- Albert Einstein
Independence
""A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.""
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Life is life a bicycle. To keep you balance you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
- Albert Einstein
Spirituality
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything in a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
- Albert Einstein
Efficiency
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein
Simplicity
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
- Albert Einstein
Personal Growth
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"The right to search for truth also implies that one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
- Albert Einstein
Integrity
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtfully submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his own intelligence."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But with deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
- Albert Einstein
Persistence
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the ax in the hand of the pathological criminal."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
- Albert Einstein
Connection to Earth
"All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
- Albert Einstein
Contentment
"I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings."
- Albert Einstein
Originality
"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever."
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"My passion for social justice has often brought me into conflict with people, as has my aversion to any obligation and dependence I did not regard as absolutely necessary."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate."
- Albert Einstein
Peace
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin."
- Albert Einstein
Joy
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!"
- Albert Einstein
Joy
"जिस व्यक्ति ने कभी गलती नहीं कि उसने कभी कुछ नया करने की कोशिश नहीं की।"
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty, there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished."
- Albert Einstein
Hope
"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service."
- Albert Einstein
Hope
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Play is the highest form of research"
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"It’s strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak."
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Personal Growth
""It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.""
- Albert Einstein
Perseverance
"Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better."
- Albert Einstein
Connection to Earth
"Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn."
- Albert Einstein
Education
""Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.""
- Albert Einstein
Connection to Earth
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Simplicity ultimately inspires lasting creativity."
- Albert Einstein
Simplicity
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
- Albert Einstein
Simplicity