Albert Einstein Quotes

German-born theoretical physicist

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
– Albert Einstein

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
– Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
– Albert Einstein

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
– Albert Einstein

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
– Albert Einstein

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
– Albert Einstein

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

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

Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
– Albert Einstein

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

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.
– Albert Einstein

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
– Albert Einstein

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
– Albert Einstein

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
– 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

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
– Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
– Albert Einstein

Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn’t do.
– Albert Einstein

That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
– Albert Einstein

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
– Albert Einstein

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

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
– Albert Einstein

I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.
– Albert Einstein

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
– Albert Einstein

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
– Albert Einstein

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
– Albert Einstein

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
– Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
– Albert Einstein

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

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

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
– Albert Einstein

If you want different results, do not do the same things.
– Albert Einstein

The women who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
– Albert Einstein

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
– Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
– Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
– Albert Einstein

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
– Albert Einstein

The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.
– Albert Einstein

Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
– Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite : the universe and human stupidity; I’m not sure about the universe.
– Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
– Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
– Albert Einstein

The only difference between genius and stupidity, is that genius has its limits.
– Albert Einstein

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.
– Albert Einstein

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
– Albert Einstein

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
– Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
– Albert Einstein

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
– Albert Einstein

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

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
– Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
– Albert Einstein

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

The human spirit must prevail over technology.
– Albert Einstein

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
– Albert Einstein

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.
– Albert Einstein

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
– Albert Einstein

Time is an illusion.
– Albert Einstein

There is no vaccine against stupidity.
– Albert Einstein

Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
– Albert Einstein

God does not play dice with the universe.
– Albert Einstein

The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
– Albert Einstein

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
– Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
– Albert Einstein

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
– Albert Einstein

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
– Albert Einstein

God is clever, but not dishonest.
– Albert Einstein

Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.
– Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
– Albert Einstein

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego.
– Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem- in my opinion- to characterize our age.
– Albert Einstein

Never underestimate your own ignorance.
– Albert Einstein

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
– Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
– Albert Einstein

Once you stop learning, you start dying.
– Albert Einstein

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
– Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
– Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
– Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
– Albert Einstein

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
– Albert Einstein

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That’s relativity.
– Albert Einstein

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
– Albert Einstein

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

Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.
– Albert Einstein

I love humanity but I hate humans.
– Albert Einstein

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
– Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
– Albert Einstein

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
– Albert Einstein

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
– Albert Einstein

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
– Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
– Albert Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
– Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.
– Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
– Albert Einstein

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
– Albert Einstein

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
– Albert Einstein

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

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

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
– Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein

I’m more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
– Albert Einstein

Failure is success in progress.
– Albert Einstein

The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.
– Albert Einstein

Be kind to people who are different from you.
– Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
-Albert Einstein

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
– Albert Einstein

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
– Albert Einstein

Nature rarely surrenders one of her magnificent secrets.
– Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
– Albert Einstein

Never memorize what you can look up in a book.
– Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
– Albert Einstein

I don’t need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.
– Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
– Albert Einstein

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
– Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
– Albert Einstein

Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
– Albert Einstein

Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.
– Albert Einstein

Politics is more difficult than physics.
– Albert Einstein

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

I, an old man, greet you Japanese school children from afar and hope that your generation may some day put mine to shame.
– Albert Einstein

Be a voice not an echo.
– Albert Einstein

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
– Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
– Albert Einstein

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
– Albert Einstein

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
– Albert Einstein

Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.
– Albert Einstein

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.
– Albert Einstein

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
– Albert Einstein

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
– Albert Einstein

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
– 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

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
– Albert Einstein

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn’t know came along and did it.
– 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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
– Albert Einstein

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
– Albert Einstein

I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
– Albert Einstein

The word “God” is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.
– Albert Einstein

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
– Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
– Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
– Albert Einstein

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.
– Albert Einstein

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

Don’t listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
– Albert Einstein

I want to be cremated so people won’t come to worship at my bones.
– Albert Einstein

Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
– Albert Einstein

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
– Albert Einstein

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
– Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
– Albert Einstein

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
– Albert Einstein

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
– Albert Einstein

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

One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
– Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
– Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
– Albert Einstein

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
– Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason 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 merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity.
– Albert Einstein

I live my daydreams in music.
– Albert Einstein

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
– Albert Einstein

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
– Albert Einstein

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
– Albert Einstein

Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
– Albert Einstein

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