The 60 best quotes from Albert Einstein ...
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist and among the most profound thinkers of the 20th century.
1-Learn from
yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to
stop questioning.
2-We cannot
solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
3-Look deep into
nature, and then you will understand everything better.
4-Try not to
become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
5-Education is
what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
6-The true sign
of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
7-Joy in looking
and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
8-Whoever is
careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important
matters.
9-It is the
supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
10-Insanity:
doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
11-I have no
special talent. I am only passionately curious.
12-It has become
appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
13-A person who
never made a mistake never tried anything new.
14-Logic will
get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
15-The only
source of knowledge is experience.
16-Peace cannot
be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
17-The
difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
18-Only two
things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about
the former.
19-Weakness of
attitude becomes weakness of character.
20-Pure
mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
21-The important
thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
22-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.
23-Science
without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
24-The hardest
thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
25-It's not that
I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
26-Strive not to
be a success, but rather to be of value.
27-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.
28-We can't
solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
29-The most
beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and science.
30-Common sense
is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
31-To raise new
questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires
creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
32-I live in
that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of
maturity.
33-If we knew
what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
34-Once we
accept our limits, we go beyond them.
35-Reality is
merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
36-Anyone who
doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones
either.
37-The value of
a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
38-The monotony
and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
39-When the
solution is simple, God is answering.
40-The only
reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
41-Memory is
deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
42-Coincidence
is God's way of remaining anonymous.
43-There are two
ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if
everything is a miracle.
44-Few are those
who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
45-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.
46-Technological
progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
47-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.
48-I never think
of the future - it comes soon enough.
49-Everyone
should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
50-An empty
stomach is not a good political adviser.
51-You can't
blame gravity for falling in love.
52-Science is a
wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
53-I am enough
of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
54-A question
that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
55-If the facts
don't fit the theory, change the facts.
56-Before God we
are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
57-Great spirits
have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
58-As far as I'm
concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
59-It is a
miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
60-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.
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