Albert Einstein
German-born physicist, 1879-1955
63 quotes.
Quotes by Albert Einstein
- A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
- Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Creativity is intelligence having fun.
- Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid.
- Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
- He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
- If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
- Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.
- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
- It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives.
- Man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
- Maturity begins to manifest itself when we feel that our concern for others is greater than our concern for ourselves.
- Never lose a holy curiosity.
- No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.
- Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
- The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.