Einstein, Albert

Physicist-Philosopher German-American 1879 – 1955

Developed relativity and reflected on nature and knowledge.

385 quotes

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
Wisdom
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."
Beauty
"Learning is experience, everything else is just information."
Knowledge
"I am not interested in winning; I am interested in truth."
Truth
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
Life
"Do not accept anything as the truth without examining it."
Wisdom
"He who pursues wealth over conscience is a poor man indeed."
Money
"The most important thing is that we must learn to think in a new way."
Education
"The worst times are often the best times in disguise."
Hope
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Humor
"Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one would not do for others."
Kindness
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
Truth
"Pure mathematics is a poetry of logical ideas."
"The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self."
Life
"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Humor
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns."
Nature
"Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
Technology
"The value of an education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think."
Education
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
Love
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."
Imagination
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone."
Life
"Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Time
"The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe."
Philosophy
"If at first an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
Creativity
"I learned that the only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Work
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
Inspiration
"Do not worry about your problems with math, I assure you that my problems with math are far greater."
Humor