Albert Einstein was a German physicist who developed the theory of relativity. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century and is known for his mass-energy equivalence formula, E = mc2. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Albert Einstein on education, success, imagination.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
but no mouse would ever construct
a mousetrap.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein Quotes About Education
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
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — Albert Einstein
Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. — Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. — Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. — Albert Einstein
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. — Albert Einstein
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
motivational quote by Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Success
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism. — Albert Einstein
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. — 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
Failure is success in progress — Albert Einstein
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein
Education is not the learning of facts, it's rather the training of the mind to think.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. — Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. — Albert Einstein
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously. — Albert Einstein
The most important thing is to not stop questioning. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Imagination
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. — Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein
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. — Albert Einstein
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. — Albert Einstein
Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. — Albert Einstein
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. — Albert Einstein
Imagination is the highest form of research. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About War
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available. — Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. — Albert Einstein
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided. — Albert Einstein
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. — Albert Einstein
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war. — Albert Einstein
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. — Albert Einstein
Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war. — Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Life
Learn from yesterday, live for today. — Albert Einstein
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. — Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered 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
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein
Be a voice not an echo. — Albert Einstein
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. — Albert Einstein
You never fail until you stop trying. — Albert Einstein
Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle. — Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Love
You can't blame gravity for falling in love. — Albert Einstein
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. — Albert Einstein
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein
If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world — Albert Einstein
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life. — Albert Einstein
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein
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. — Albert Einstein
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. — Albert Einstein
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. — Albert Einstein
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Intelligence
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. — Albert Einstein
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it. — 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
Creativity is intelligence having fun. — Albert Einstein
...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community. — Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. — Albert Einstein
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. — Albert Einstein
To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes. — Albert Einstein
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature. — Albert Einstein
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject. — Albert Einstein
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. — Albert Einstein
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge. — Albert Einstein
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein
Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet — Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live — Albert Einstein
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. — Albert Einstein
"There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe." — Albert Einstein
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Change
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. — Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. — 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
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945) — Albert Einstein
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this. — Albert Einstein
Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein
Nothing that I can do 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
The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Theoretical
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits. — Albert Einstein
It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close. — Albert Einstein
The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Genius.
Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex — Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. — Albert Einstein
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. — Albert Einstein
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. — Albert Einstein
Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous. — Albert Einstein
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. — Albert Einstein
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him. — Albert Einstein
There's a genius in all of us. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Science
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. — Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. — Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift. — Albert Einstein
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. — Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. — Albert Einstein
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions. — Albert Einstein
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. — Albert Einstein
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. — Albert Einstein
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. — Albert Einstein
Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down. — Albert Einstein
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations. — Albert Einstein
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. — Albert Einstein
How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living. — Albert Einstein
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own. — Albert Einstein
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits. — Albert Einstein
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves. — Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About World
You can't use an old map to explore a new world. — Albert Einstein
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. — Albert Einstein
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. — Albert Einstein
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. — Albert Einstein
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. — Albert Einstein
The world we have created is a product of our thinking. — Albert Einstein
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. — Albert Einstein
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. — Albert Einstein
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self. — Albert Einstein
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details. — Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering. — Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. — Albert Einstein
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. — Albert Einstein
You can't blame gravity for falling in love. — Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. — Albert Einstein
Be a voice not an echo. — Albert Einstein
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music. — Albert Einstein
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. — Albert Einstein
Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down. — Albert Einstein
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — Albert Einstein
The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions — Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience. — Albert Einstein
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. — Albert Einstein
The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know. — Albert Einstein
Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. — Albert Einstein
Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance. — Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. — Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. — Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. 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 every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. — Albert Einstein
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. — Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory. — Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. — Albert Einstein
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. — Albert Einstein
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. — Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. — Albert Einstein
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. — Albert Einstein
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. — Albert Einstein
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. — Albert Einstein
Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true. — Albert Einstein
Life Lessons by Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein taught us to never give up when faced with a difficult problem and to keep pushing forward with our ideas and solutions.
He also showed us the importance of questioning the status quo and always striving to think outside the box.
Finally, he showed us the importance of taking risks and having the courage to follow our own paths, even if it means going against the grain.
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