Einstein may have been a physicist, but he sounded off on all sorts of topics in a way you’d only expect from a certified genius. Albert Einstein quotes are quirky, fun, and at times encouraging and always thoughtful. Here are some of his best quotes on all sorts of topics.
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” -Albert Einstein
“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.” -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
“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
“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” -Albert Einstein
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.” -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
“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
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” -Albert Einstein
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” -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
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
“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.” -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
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” -Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” -Albert Einstein
“All generalizations are false, including this one.” -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
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” -Albert Einstein
“Never memorize something that you can look up.” -Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” -Albert Einstein
“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.” -Albert Einstein
“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.” -Albert Einstein
“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.” -Albert Einstein
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.” -Albert Einstein
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” -Albert Einstein
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” -Albert Einstein
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” -Albert Einstein
“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” -Albert Einstein
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” -Albert Einstein
“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” -Albert Einstein
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” -Albert Einstein
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” -Albert Einstein
“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.” -Albert Einstein
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” -Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -Albert Einstein
“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.” -Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” -Albert Einstein
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” -Albert Einstein
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” -Albert Einstein
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” -Albert Einstein
“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” -Albert Einstein
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” -Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” -Albert Einstein
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” -Albert Einstein
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” -Albert Einstein
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” -Albert Einstein
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” -Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” -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
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” -Albert Einstein
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein
“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
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” -Albert Einstein
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.” -Albert Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” -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
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” -Albert Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” -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
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” -Albert Einstein
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” -Albert Einstein
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.” -Albert Einstein
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein
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