Inspirational Quotations by Albert Einstein

  • The Three Rules of Work
    1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
    2. From discord, find harmony.
    3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
    Topics: Difficulty, Opportunity, Harmony, Simplicity, Work Ethics
    From Issue 2
  • Strive not to be a success,
    but rather to be of value.
    From Issue 42
  • Anyone who has never made a mistake
    has never tried anything new.
    From Issue 42
  • I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
    From Issue 60
  • The important thing is to not stop questioning.
    From Issue 62
  • Learn from yesterday:
    Live for today:
    Hope for tomorrow.
    From Issue 90
  • 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.
    From Issue 90
  • Try not to become a man of success,
    But rather try to become a man of value.
    From Issue 92
  • I think and think for months and years,
    ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
    The hundredth time I am right.
    From Issue 95
  • Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
    From Issue 113
  • There are two ways to live you life:
    One is as though nothing is a miracle.
    The other is as though everything is a miracle.
    From Issue 121
  • Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
    From Issue 133
  • Everything that is really great and inspiring is
    created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
    From Issue 156
  • Logic will get you from A to B.
    Imagination will take you everywhere.
    From Issue 164
  • 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.
    From Issue 169
  • Not everything that can be counted counts,
    and not everything that counts can be counted.
    From Issue 182
  • 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.
    From Issue 200
  • 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.
    From Issue 201
  • Life is like riding a bicycle.
    To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
    From Issue 214
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
    From Issue 223
  • In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
    From Issue 232
  • The most beautiful experience we can have
    is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which
    stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
    From Issue 236
  • The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
    From Issue 242
  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
    From Issue 244
  • An 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.
    From Issue 249
  • Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
    From Issue 257
  • It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
    From Issue 259
  • Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
    From Issue 264
  • You cannot solve the problem with the same
    kind of thinking that has created the problem.
    From Issue 267
  • It's not that I'm am so smart,
    it's just that I stay with problems longer.
    From Issue 273
  • The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious -- the fundamental
    emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
    From Issue 286
  • Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
    From Issue 295
  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
    From Issue 323
  • If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
    From Issue 324
  • It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
    From Issue 333
  • Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    From Issue 367
  • Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
    From Issue 367
  • A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.
    From Issue 367
  • The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
    From Issue 367
  • Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
    From Issue 367
  • Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
    From Issue 367
  • One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
    From Issue 367
  • The important thing is not to stop questioning.
    From Issue 367
  • You never fail until you stop trying.
    From Issue 367
  • Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
    From Issue 367
  • I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
    From Issue 367
  • The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
    From Issue 404
  • To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
    From Issue 410

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