Albert Einstein Top 10 Quotes: Discover 100+ Powerful Inspirational Sayings

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.

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

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

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

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

You never fail until you stop trying.

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.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Once you stop learning, you start dying.

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

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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.

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

Knowledge is power, but imagination rules the world.

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

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

God does not play dice with the universe.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

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

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

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

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it.

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.

Equations are more important to me than politics.

The theory of relativity has changed our understanding of space and time forever.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.

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.

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

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

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Personality is not born, it is slowly formed through painful experience.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Morality is of the highest importance—but for us, not for God.

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.

Where there is love, there is no question of right or wrong.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I believe in standard love.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.

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

True love stems from mutual respect.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Peace begins with a smile.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Failure is success in progress.

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

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

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

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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

Time is what prevents everything from happening 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.

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

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

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

The past has no power over the present moment.

There is no way to time travel into the past, but we shape it with our present actions.

Time is relative. Its only worth depends upon how we use it.

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

Events do not happen simultaneously for everyone.

The flow of time is an illusion created by memory and anticipation.

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 value of education is not just in knowledge, but in character building.

Teach him to feel rather than to judge.

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

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

Information is not knowledge.

Thinking should become our habit, not just our job.

The mind is like a parachute: it only works when it's open.

Schools should teach how to think, not what to think.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution.

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 from this prison by widening our circle of compassion.

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

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

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

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

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

Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

The goal of human life is to live in harmony with all living beings.

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

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Don't take yourself too seriously. You're just a carbon-based life form on a minor planet orbiting a modest star.

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

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