Albert Einstein Motivational Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

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

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

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

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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

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

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Failure is success in progress

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

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 real valuable thing is intuition.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

You never fail until you stop trying.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

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 act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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.

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.

Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.