Why should I know Albert Einstein?

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

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

“A person who never made a mistake never tried something new.”

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”

“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.”

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

“As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.”

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it… he who doesn’t pays it.”

“Don’t think about why you question, simply don’t stop questioning. Don’t worry about what you can’t answer, and don’t try to explain what you can’t know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind — to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“Everyone 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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

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

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

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

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

“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 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 at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

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

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

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

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.”

“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.”

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

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“Once you stop learning, you start dying.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

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

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

“Sit with a beautiful woman for an hour and it seems like a minute, sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”

“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”

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

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

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

“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”

“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.”

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

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.”

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

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

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

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”

“Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

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

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

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

“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”