100+ Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Mind

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

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

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.

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.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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

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

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

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

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

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

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

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

Knowledge is power, but imagination rules the world.

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Failure is success in progress.

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

One must not strive to be successful, but rather to be of value.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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

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

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

It is not that I'm so smart, but I stay with questions much longer.

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.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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.

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

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

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

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 search for truth is more precious than its possession.

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.

A human being is part of the whole called by us 'universe'… a part limited in time and space.

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

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt.

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

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

No one can win a war. The best that can be done is to prevent one.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

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

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

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

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

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.

Information is not knowledge.

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.

We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Where there is love, there is no fear.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

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

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Strive to comprehend the music of the spheres.

No one is exempt from loving and serving others.

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

Ethical behavior is vital even if it brings no reward.

Humanity has lost something essential when it forgets compassion.

Compassion ennobles even the greatest intellect.

The goal of human life is to live compassionately and act selflessly.

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

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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

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.

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

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 is an illusion.

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 and not conditions in which we live.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Nothing happens until something moves.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

It is the duty of every citizen according to his ability to resist injustice.

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

Everyone 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.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being.

The freedom of scientific research should be protected from any political interference.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the protection of their rights.

It is every citizen's responsibility to question authority.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

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

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

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

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

The goal of all science is to pave the way from sensation to comprehensibility.

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

I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I sometimes do not know that I am.

I am thankful to all those who said no. It’s because of them I did it myself.

The value of a man resides in what he gives, not in what he is able to receive.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.