"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
- Albert Einstein
Growth
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"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
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein
Peace
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living."
- Albert Einstein
Contribution
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence."
- Albert Einstein
Aspirations
"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."
- Albert Einstein
Hard Work
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
- Albert Einstein
Nature
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"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
"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
"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
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
- Albert Einstein
Integrity
"Logic will get you from A to B, imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"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
"The only source of knowledge is experience."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
Hope
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Adversity
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
- Albert Einstein
Adaptation
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
Courage
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
- Albert Einstein
Determination
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"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
"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
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Failure is success in progress."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"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
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
- Albert Einstein
Respect
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"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 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
"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
"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
"Peace cannot be kept by force: It can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein
Peace
"Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."
- Albert Einstein
Peace
"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"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
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
Inspiration
"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
"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
"Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech."
- Albert Einstein
Responsibility
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"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
"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
"Never memorize something that you can look up."
- Albert Einstein
Education
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, It just transforms from one form to another."
- Albert Einstein
Transformation
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
- Albert Einstein
Integrity
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"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
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein
Belief
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
- Albert Einstein
Compassion
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous."
- Albert Einstein
Philosophy
"When there is love, there is no imposition."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"Love is a better teacher than duty."
- Albert Einstein
Love
"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
"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
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein
Awareness
"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."
Integrity
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
Wisdom