100+ Albert Einstein Famous Quotes That Inspire & Challenge Your Mind

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play.

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

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

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

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

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.

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

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Wonder is the foundation of all science and philosophy.

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

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

God does not play dice with the universe.

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

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

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world.

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

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

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.

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

As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where civil liberties, tolerance, and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

The time may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire rights already conceded to man. The ape may get his ballot.

Our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of others.

The problem of language and communication is one of the greatest obstacles to peace.

The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Where there is love, there is no question of duty.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

The most beautiful thing in the world is love expressed through human contact.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Love is not a matter of counting years, but of how much love you give.

Human beings are not born once and for all like mushrooms, but over and over again.

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

I believe in standard love, not in standard marriage.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

In matters of the heart, logic has no place.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I have learned that mistakes are not failures unless you repeat them.

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

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

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Don’t let school interfere with your education.

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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

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. That's relativity.

Time is what the clock shows, but reality is what we experience.

The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Space and time are modes by which we think, not conditions in which we live.

Time is relative. So is speed. So is size. So is everything.

The flow of time is an illusion created by memory.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

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

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

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me.

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

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.

Teach the student how to think, not what to think.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

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

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost.

Critical thinking is the key to solving tomorrow’s problems today.

Thinking is hard work. That's why so few people engage in it.

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

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

I never give up. I figure out different ways.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated.

One becomes focused, erect, fearless, ready to sacrifice life, in order to get the truth.

My strength lies in the fact that I do not give up easily.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form.

I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious and persistently determined.

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

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession, and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

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

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

I have second thoughts about everything—except my first thoughts.

I play the violin, but only for myself. I enjoy it immensely.

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.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.