Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotations [Page 3]

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

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

You never fail until you stop trying.

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.

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

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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.

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

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

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

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

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.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

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.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.

Intelligence and genius

In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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

Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.