Albert Einstein
German-born physicist, 1879-1955
63 quotes.
Quotes by Albert Einstein
- The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
- The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
- The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
- The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- The problem is never the problem but the way you see the problem.
- The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
- The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- 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.
- Those who are led should not be driven, and they should be allowed to choose their leader.
- Try not to become a man of success, but to become a man or a woman of value.
- Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
- Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.
- Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
- Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
- Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- You never fail until you stop trying.
- It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.