101 Quotes by Albert Einstein
1. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
2. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
3. "Learn from yesterday,
live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is to not stop questioning."
5. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
6. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
7. "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
(Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them)
8."Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
10. "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,
without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
11. "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."
12. "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
13. "Men marry women with the hope they will never change.
Women marry men with the hope they will change.
Invariably they are both disappointed."
14. "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
15. "Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
16. "We cannot solve our problems
with the same thinking we used when we created them."
17. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the universe."
18. "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
19. "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
20. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results."
21. "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle;
you can live as if everything is a miracle."
22. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
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23. "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
24. "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
25. "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
26. "To punish me for my contempt of authority,
Fate has made me an authority myself."
27. "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The very prevention of war requires more faith,
courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war."
28. "I am doing just fine, considering that
I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives."
29. "The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."
30. "The only source of knowledge is experience."
31. "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
32. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
33. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
34. "Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted."
35. "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
36. "I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
37. "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."
39. "One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved.
One must develop an instinct for what one can
just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
40. "Politics is a pendulum whose swings
between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions."
41. "Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others,
it is the only means."
42. "The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
43. "The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."
44. The Three Rules of Work:
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
45. "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
46. "The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time."
47. "The true value of a human being can be found in the degree
to which he has attained liberation from the self."
48. "To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination
for play and the childlike desire for recognition."
49. "Truly novel ideas emerge only in one's youth.
Later on one becomes more experienced, famous — and foolish."
50. "Truth is what stands the test of experience."
51. "We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us."
52. "When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch,
it doesn't notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved.
I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn't notice."
53. "When you trip over love, it is easy to get up.
But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
54. "Where there is love, there is no imposition."
55. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling
but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
56. "All of science is nothing more than refinement of everyday thinking."
57. "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."
58. "I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details."
59. "Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
60. "The most beautiful experience we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science."
61. "I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity."
62. "Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God’s Nature
are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of
this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor."
63. "Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them—these
are the best guides for man."
65. "A happy man is too satisfied with the present
to dwell too much on the future."
66. "The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
67. "Most teachers waste their time
by asking questions that are intended to discover
what a pupil does not know,
whereas the true art of questioning is to discover
what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing."
68. "The value of achievement lies in the achieving."
69. "I have not eaten enough of the Tree of Knowledge,
though in my profession I am obliged to feed on it regularly."
70. "There is only one road to human greatness:
through the school of hard knocks."
71. "Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."
72. "It is easier to denature plutonium
than to denature the evil spirit of man."
73. "Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too,
but they have never hit me,
because somehow they belonged to another world
with which I have no connection whatsoever."
74. "Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being."
75. "Love brings much happiness, much more so than
pining for someone brings pain."
76. "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
77. "If you can't explain it to a six year old,
you don't understand it yourself."
78. "I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right."
79. "I speak to everyone in the same way,
whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
80. "I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent;
curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance,
combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."
81. "I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age."
82. "I believe in intuition and inspiration.
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."
83. "God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent."
84. "Generations to come will scarce believe
that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."
85. "For the rest of my life I will reflect on what light is."
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86. "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
87. "Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."
88. "Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."
89. "Black holes are where God divided by zero."
90. "What the conscious mind can’t recognize, the heart might know."
91. "Conceptions without experience are void;
experience without conceptions is blind."
92. "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power,
war is inevitable."
93. "Anyone who thinks
science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant
is utterly mistaken."
94. "Any man who can drive safely
while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
95. "Adversity introduces a man to himself."
96. "A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake,
and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others."
98. "A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way.
But intuition is nothing but the outcome
of earlier intellectual experience."
99. "A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment
of personal desires will sooner or later always
lead to bitter disappointment."
100. "A hundred times every day I remind myself
that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men,
living and dead, and that I must exert myself
in order to give in the measure as I have received
and am still receiving."
101. "A great thought begins by seeing something differently,
with a shift of the mind's eye."
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