125 Albert Einstein Quotes for Deep Thinking (GENIUS)

35 Wise and Insightful Albert Einstein Quotes

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day.”
Albert Einstein

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

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain. — **Love** brings much **happiness**, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.

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

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. — **Fear** or stupidity has always been the basis of most human **actions**.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world. — Imagination is more important than **knowledge**. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.

Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists. If this humility could be imparted to everybody, the world of human endeavors would become more appealing.”
Albert Einstein

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

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

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. — **Education** is what remains after one has forgotten what one has **learned** in school.

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

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

I still struggle with the same problems as ten years ago. I succeed in small matters but the real goal remains unattainable, even though it sometimes seems palpably close. It is hard, yet rewarding: hard because the goal is beyond my abilities, but rewarding because it makes one oblivious to the distractions of everyday life.”
Albert Einstein

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

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

Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts. — Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big **dreams** is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

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

Education is not the learning of facts, it’s rather the training of the mind to think. — Education is not the **learning** of facts, it’s rather the training of the mind to think.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong - it is character. — Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is **character**.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”
Albert Einstein

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.

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

I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate. — I would teach **peace** rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

27 Thought-provoking Yet Inspiring Quotes by Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
Albert Einstein

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

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. — The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or **encourage** evil than from those who actually commit it.

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

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

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. — Unthinking **respect** for authority is the greatest enemy of **truth**.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”
Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a **miracle**. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy — am I or are the others crazy?

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry — It is, in fact, nothing short of a **miracle** that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and final emergence into light—only those who have experienced it can understand that.”
Albert Einstein

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

Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. — Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and **resentment** are alien.

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

Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.

33 Famous Albert Einstein Quotes About Life

To see with one’s own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a trim sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word – is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congratulation?”
Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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. — 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.

The only source of knowledge is experience. — The only source of **knowledge** is experience.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. — Weakness of **attitude** becomes weakness of **character**.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. — A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the **future**.

Information is not knowledge. — Information is not **knowledge**.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy **habits** of thinking.

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

The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

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

Truth is what stands the test of experience. — **Truth** is what stands the test of experience.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — **Learn** from yesterday, live for today, **hope** for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. — There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of **knowledge** but can never prove how it got there.

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

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. — Nothing truly valuable arises from **ambition** or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and **devotion** towards men and towards objective things.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. — Human beings must have **action**; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death. — Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and **hopes** of reward after death.

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
Albert Einstein

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

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

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

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein — Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of **courage** to move in the opposite direction.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I always get by best with my naivety, which is 20 percent deliberate.

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut. — If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. **Work** is X; Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.

Once you stop learning, you start dying. — Once you stop **learning**, you start dying.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. — **Peace** cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. — The true sign of intelligence is not **knowledge** but imagination.

30 Powerful Albert Einstein Quotes that Will Blow Your Mind

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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

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

Two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. — Two things are infinite – the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — The monotony and **solitude** of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. — If you are out to describe the **truth**, leave elegance to the tailor.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

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

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

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

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

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.”
Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events. — **Memory** is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

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

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

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

Reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein Short Biography

The winner of the Nobel Prize for physic in 1921, Albert Einstein is one of the most prominent physicists and mathematicians the world has ever witnessed.

Dubbed a genius due to his earth breaking scientific discoveries and ideas, Einstein is considered to be the most influential scientist of the 20th century.

Born on 14 March 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, Einstein fled the fatherland and immigrated to the USA in December 1932 (with the help of England) – just a month before the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was targeted by the Nazi Party because he was a pacifist and a Jew. He made the decision to leave his country in the winter of 1932 – never to return again.

After emigrating to the United States, he took a position at the newly founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

When World War 2 started in 1939, many of Einstein’s discoveries (including the E=mc2 equation) had contributed to the basis of the development of the atomic bomb which ultimately led to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

7 years after WWII, Israel’s premier, David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein to be the president of Israel which he inevitably declined.

He lived the last years of his life doing what he does best. He passed on 18 April 1955… and one of his final words were: “I am not the least afraid to die.”

Albert Einstein legacy lived on even after decades after his death, as physicists began to unravel the mystery of his unified field theory.

Even space satellites further verified the principles of his cosmology.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.“
Albert Einstein

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