If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
These quotes cover a wide range of topics and reflect Einstein’s thoughts on science, life, philosophy, and more.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Failure is success in progress.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
You never fail until you stop trying.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Time is an illusion.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Character is higher than intellect.
The human spirit must prevail over technology.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance, and self-criticism.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science.
Ethical thinking is related to aesthetics.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.
The government is concerned, primarily, with itself.
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we can imagine.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Love is a better teacher than duty.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
