Albert Einstein Quotes
1879 - 1955
US Physicist
A collection of famous sayings and inspirational quotes by Albert Einstein. We hope you find them inspiring.
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Any 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.
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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.
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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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.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend 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.
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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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.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
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? It is not a proper subject for congratulation?
Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton
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