Albert Einstein Quotes

Here you will find a collection of Albert Einstein quotes and famous sayings that have been around for years. As a US Physicist he impacted many lives. He lived during the period of 1879 - 1955. We hope you find the quotes and sayings inspiring.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

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

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

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.
Albert Einstein

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.
Albert Einstein

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. Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Albert Einstein

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

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.
Albert Einstein


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

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

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

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

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein

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.
Albert Einstein

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
Albert Einstein

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

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.
Albert Einstein

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein, in our collection of Best Love Sayings

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

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

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein

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

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

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.
Albert Einstein

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

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton

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?
Albert Einstein


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