Albert Einstein Quotes:
His Wisdom and Knowledge About Life

These Albert Einstein quotes reveal his deep understanding and vast knowledge of the best way to live life. Albert Einstein was not only a genius in physics and mathematics; he was a very insightful person.

A Brief History

Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879.

He became a theoretical physicist and is best known (and quoted) for his theory of relativity (a theory of gravitation) and specifically mass–energy equivalence, E = mc2 (the concept that any mass has an associated energy and vice versa).

During his lifetime, Einstein published over 300 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific works. In 1955, he died at the age of 76, when he experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurysm.

Favorite and Inspiring Albert Einstein Quotes

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school, and in life, is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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

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.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

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

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

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research, now would it?

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

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

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn; to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy, and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion, to embrace all living creatures, and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

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.

When all think alike, no one thinks very much.

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

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

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

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.

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

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

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

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