Albert Einstein Quotes

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

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.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

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.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

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.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

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

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.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

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.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

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

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

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

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Time is an illusion.

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

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Love is a better master than duty.

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

We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

Nothing happens until something moves.

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

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

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

God does not play dice with the universe.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

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

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

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

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions." (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

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

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

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

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

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.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages 1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. 2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5. 3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.” 4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank. 5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13. 6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14. 7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15. 8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil. 9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19. 10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961. 11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936. 12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23 13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24 14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record 15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity 16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28 18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world 19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter 20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean 21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind 22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest 23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream." 24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight 26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions. 27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon. 28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas 30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger 31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States 32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out. 33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games" 34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out. 35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa. 36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president. 37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels. 38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat". 40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived 41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise 42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out 43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US 44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats 45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.