Albert Einstein is recognized around the world as one of the most iconic and intelligent minds ever. From his fantastic scientific discoveries, to the hardships he endured during his life; Einstein shared a lot of wisdom and insight on life, people, and the world in general.
Here are 80 of Albert Einstein‘s most insightful quotes:
- “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”– Albert Einstein
- “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” – Albert Einstein
- “Truth is what stands the test of experience.” – Albert Einstein
- “Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.” – Albert Einstein
- “The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
- “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” – Albert Einstein
- “There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.” – Albert Einstein
- “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
- “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
- “Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” – Albert Einstein
- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – 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
- “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” – Albert Einstein
- “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
- “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
- “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein
- “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” – Albert Einstein
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
- “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.” – Albert Einstein
- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
- “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
- “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.” – Albert Einstein
- “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein
- “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
- “Information is not knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
- “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Albert Einstein
- “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”– Albert Einstein
- “Once you stop learning, you start dying.” – Albert Einstein
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” – 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
- “Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” – Albert Einstein
- “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “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.” – Albert Einstein
- “All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” – Albert Einstein
- “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” – Albert Einstein
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
- “You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.” – Albert Einstein
- “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” – Albert Einstein
- “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
- “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
- “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
- “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein
- “The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.” – Albert Einstein
- “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Albert Einstein
- “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” – Albert Einstein
- “A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.” – Albert Einstein
- “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.” – Albert Einstein
- “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” – Albert Einstein
- “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” – Albert Einstein
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “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
- “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.” – Albert Einstein
- “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – Albert Einstein
- “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
- “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
- “The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”– Albert Einstein
- “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.” – Albert Einstein
- “Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” – Albert Einstein
- “As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.” – Albert Einstein
- “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” – Albert Einstein
- “I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.” – Albert Einstein
- “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
- “Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.” – Albert Einstein
- “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
- “I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”– Albert Einstein
- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”– Albert Einstein
- “Nothing happens until something moves.”– 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 speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”– Albert Einstein
- “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”– Albert Einstein
- “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”– Albert Einstein
- “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”– Albert Einstein
- “A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”– Albert Einstein
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