50+ Inspirational Albert Einstein Quotes to Ignite Your Imagination and Wisdom

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"Never memorize something that you can look up."

- Albert Einstein

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

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

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

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"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

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

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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

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"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."

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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

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"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another."

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

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"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

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

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"The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

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"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

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"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

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"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know."

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

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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

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

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"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

"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

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"The greatest scientists are artists as well."

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"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

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."

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"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."

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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

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

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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

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"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."

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"The right to search for truth also implies that one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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"I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings."

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"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

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

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

- Albert Einstein

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

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

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

- Albert Einstein

"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."

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"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."

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"Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech."

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"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

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

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"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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