100+ Albert Einstein Quotes That Inspire Genius Thinking

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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

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

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

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.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract thinking.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.

We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has powerful muscles but no personality.

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

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Once you stop learning, you start dying.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

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

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

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.

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 regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Knowledge is power, but imagination rules the world.

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

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

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

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

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

It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

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

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

All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything is interconnected.

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

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

A human being is part of the whole called by us the universe.

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.

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

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

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead.

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

The fairest way to judge a man is to imagine how he would behave if he knew he would never be found out.

Man tries to make for himself a simplified and intelligible picture of the world.

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.

Time is an illusion.

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

The flow of time is not something independent, but is bound up with the structure of space.

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.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library whose walls are covered with books in many different languages.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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

Where there is love, there is no question.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

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

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

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

No one can win a game unless they know how to lose.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Compassion is the key to a meaningful life.

Generosity consists not in giving much but in giving wisely.

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

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

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

Failure is success in progress.

One must never give up.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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

Success comes from doing what others believe is impossible.

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

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I assure you that mine are greater.

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

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

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.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

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

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

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

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

Make everything as simple as it can be, but not simpler.

Nature does not show mercy to complexity.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.

The freedom of a society is measured by how far it can go in criticizing itself.

With freedom comes responsibility.

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

The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

The state exists for the individual, not the individual for the state.

Nothing truly valuable comes from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.

The moral development of man is the highest goal of education.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

The most destructive element in the human psyche is egotism.

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.

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

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

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.

The goal of human life is to help others.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

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

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 do not know that I am.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical.

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