Quotes of Einstein

Einstein's quotes must be the greatest quotes for me, eternally. I do love them and I've read them time and time again.

• "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."

• "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."
• "Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
• "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
• "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
• "I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
• "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
• "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
• "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
• "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
• "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."
• "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
• "Never memorize something that you can look up."
• "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."
• "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
• "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
• "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
• "Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
• "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."
• "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "Love is a better master than duty."
• "You never fail until you stop trying."
• "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."
• "Out of clutter, find simplicity."
• "What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
• "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."
• "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
• "Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
• "When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
• "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
• "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
• "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
• "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
• "Nothing happens until something moves."
• "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
• "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."
• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
• "I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
• "You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
• "Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."
• "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."
• "Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work..."
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
• "What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."
• "Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."
• "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once."
• "The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth."
• "Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
• "The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."
• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
• "We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
• "We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live."
• "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."
• "Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none."
• "Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up."
• "However rare true love maybe , it is less so than true friendship"
• "Truth is what stands the test of experience. "
• "If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."
• "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
• "The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. "
• "Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind."
• "Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. "
• "The human spirit must prevail over technology."
• "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
• "It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility."
• "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
• "Information is not knowledge."
• "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."
• "If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it."
• "Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew. "
• "Learning is experience. Everything else is just information."
• "I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn"
• "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."