Inspirational Quotations by Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

Inspiring Quotes by Albert Einstein

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 world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: evil, People, Action

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
—Albert Einstein

You cannot solve the problem with the same kind of thinking that has created the problem.
—Albert Einstein

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
—Albert Einstein

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Ideas

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable — though much less certain — that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.
—Albert Einstein

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
—Albert Einstein

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.
—Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
—Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: One liners, Perception, Reality, Attitude

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
—Albert Einstein

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.
—Albert Einstein

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Wisdom, Truth

The Three Rules of Work
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Work Ethics, Simplicity, Difficulty, Harmony, Opportunity

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.
—Albert Einstein

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.
—Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Art, One liners

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

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

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
—Albert Einstein

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
—Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
—Albert Einstein

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
—Albert Einstein

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.
—Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
—Albert Einstein

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
—Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
—Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
—Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
—Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
—Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Solitude

You never fail until you stop trying.
—Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
—Albert Einstein

Nothing happens until something moves.
—Albert Einstein

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.
—Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
—Albert Einstein

A man’s value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Action

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.
—Albert Einstein

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
—Albert Einstein

Never stop questioning.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Creativity

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Life, Entrepreneurs, Goals, People

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Courage, Ideas

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Education

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.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Success

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
—Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
—Albert Einstein

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.
—Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Imagination, Virtues

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
—Albert Einstein

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.
—Albert Einstein

Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Beauty, Education, Learning

Learn from yesterday: Live for today: Hope for tomorrow.
—Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
—Albert Einstein

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
—Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Solitude

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
—Albert Einstein

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Marriage

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
—Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Understanding

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
—Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
—Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: One liners, Anger, Forgiveness

A new kind of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels.
—Albert Einstein

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them–these are the best guides for man.
—Albert Einstein

I think and think, for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
—Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
—Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
—Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
—Albert Einstein

It’s not that I’m am so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
—Albert Einstein

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Change

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
—Albert Einstein

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
—Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
—Albert Einstein

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
—Albert Einstein
Topics: Wisdom

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
—Albert Einstein

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