Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotations

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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

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.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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.

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

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

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

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

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

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.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

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

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

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 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.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.