Popular Albert Einstein's Quotes And Sayings

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

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

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

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

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Once you stop learning, you start dying

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.

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

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

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.

Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

The 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.

The woman 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.

Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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.

Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

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

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

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

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.

Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Don't let your brain interfere with your heart.

I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know.

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

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

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

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.

I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

Experts are just trained dogs.

A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

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

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

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

Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. 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. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Never memorize what you can look up in a book.

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

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.