Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
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
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.
Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Albert Einstein
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour — property, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible.
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
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one
Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein