Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotes

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.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

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

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

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.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Ego=1/Knowledge " More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

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

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

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Learn from yesterday, live for today and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

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?

Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power.

A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy' Albert Einstein

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll learn.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

Look to the stars and from them learn.

No man or Genie on earth had "created" anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had "invented" anything - he had Invented a lie; an unwise man.... thinks we have created an atom.

There can be no positive result through negative attitude. Think positive. Live positive.

Schopenhauer’s saying, that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,” has been an inspiration to me since my

The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.

Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world and through the centuries. Only one who has devoted his life to similar ends can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man such strength. A contemporary has said, not unjustly, that in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life... no man can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor that his sayings are beautiful.

If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.

If you can't do respect for yours, you can't do for others".

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

four-fifths of the words attributed to me are things I never said, and would not agree with. If your words cannot stand on their own, adding my name won't make them less flimsy

there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those who do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; the individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance. Indications of this cosmic religious sense can be found even on earlier levels of development—for example, in the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. The cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism, as, in particular, Schopenhauer's magnificent essays have shown us. The religious geniuses of all times have been distinguished by this cosmic religious sense, which recognizes neither dogmas nor God made in man's image. Consequently there cannot be a church whose chief doctrines are based on the cosmic religious experience. It comes about, therefore, that we find precisely among the heretics of all ages men who were inspired by this highest religious experience; often they appeared to their contemporaries as atheists, but sometimes also as saints.

Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy

If people are not laughing at your goals,then your goals are too small

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

Dua. I'm the master of my own fate - I'm the Captain of my soul. I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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

The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

If you only do what you can do, you can never be more than what you are now.

Be a voice, not an echo.

There is nothing that is more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -Tallulah Bankhead (1903-68) How much of human life is lost in waiting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) Only a life lived for others is worth living. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.  Albert Einstein

Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits

Hmm, yes. Pig physics.

Live well and read correctly.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

This kind of search in the dark, with its tense desire, lasting for years, full of foreboding, with it's exhausting change form aspiration to frustration and it's final breakthrough to lucidity, all of this you only know properly if you experienced it.

person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. -Albert Einstein

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.

Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that's counted truly counts

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them I did it myself.

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. –H. Jackson Brown

the dark lady who inspired Shakespeare’s sonnets, the lady of Arosa may remain forever mysterious.” (Unfortunately, because Schrödinger had so many girlfriends and lovers in his life, as well as illegitimate children, it is impossible to determine precisely who served as the muse for this historic equation.) Over the next several months, in a remarkable series of papers, Schrödinger showed that the mysterious rules found by Niels Bohr for the hydrogen atom were simple consequences of his equation. For the first time, physicists had a detailed picture of the interior of the atom, by which one could, in principle, calculate the properties of more complex atoms, even molecules. Within months, the new quantum theory became a steamroller, obliterating many of the most puzzling questions about the atomic world, answering the greatest mysteries that had stumped scientists since the Greeks. The

...I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research. Only the man who can conceive the gigantic effort and above all the devotion, without which original scientific thought cannot succeed, can measure the strength of the feeling from which alone such work...can grow. What a deep belief in the intelligence of Creation and what longing for understanding, even if only of a meagre reflection in the revealed intelligence of this world, must have flourished in Kepler and Newton, enabling them as lonely men to unravel over years of work the mechanism of celestial mechanics....Only the man who devotes his life to such goals has a living conception of what inspired these men and gave them strength to remain steadfast in their aims in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religiousness that bestows such strength. A contemporary has said, not unrightly, that the serious research scholar in our generally materialistic age is the only deeply religious human being.

Đối với những con người hành động, nhận thức một lần về chân lý là không đủ; ngược lại, nhận thức này phải được luôn luôn làm mới lại một cách không mệt mỏi nếu không muốn nó bị mai một. Nhận thức giống một bức tượng cẩm thạch đứng giữa sa mạc và luôn có nguy cơ bị gió cát chôn vùi. Những bàn tay siêng năng phải luôn luôn hoạt động để cho cẩm thạch có thể tiếp tục lấp lánh dưới ánh mặt trời.

Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worthwhile, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices, and private greed draped in the colors of patriotism. Their arms should be weapons of the spirit, not shrapnel and tanks. Think of what a world we could build if the power unleashed in war were applied to constructive tasks! One tenth of the energy that the various belligerent spent in the World War, a fraction of the money they exploded in hand grenades and poison gas, would suffice to raise the standard of living in every country and avert the economic catastrophe of worldwide unemployment. Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes-goodwill among men and peace on earth

Albert Einstein said, “Information is not knowledge,” and he was on to something extremely important. You can consume an endless amount of information, but it will never equal knowledge, wisdom. Turning information into knowledge requires two things: (A) you need to consume knowledge, and (B) you need to execute the knowledge you have learned. That is the secret to unlocking knowledge out of information.

If you had walked through the pleasant Tuscan countryside in the 1890's, you might have come upon a somewhat long-haired teenage high school dropout on the road to Pavia. His teachers in Germany had told him that he would never amount to anything, that his questions destroyed classroom discipline, that he would be better off out of school. So he left and wandered, delighting in the freedom of Northern Italy, where he could ruminate on matters remote from the subjects he had been force-fed in his highly disciplined Prussian schoolroom. His name was Albert Einstein, and his ruminations changed the world.