Last Updated on 23 June 2024

Quotes from Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

• All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.
• Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
• Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
• The greatest scientists are artists as well.
• A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
• He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
• I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
• 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 believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
• I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.
• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
• I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
• 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 … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
• 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.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
• The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
• Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
• The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
• My passion for social justice has often brought me into conflict with people, as has my aversion to any obligation and dependence I did not regard as absolutely necessary.
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
• 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.
• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
• We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
• 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.
• Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, observing, there we enter the realm of art and science.