A Few Wise Quotes from Albert Einstein

 Albert Einstein is probably one of the most well know people I'll be sharing quotes from. Though many people simply know he was inspirational and considered the 20th Century's most influential physicist, few people know more than that about him. Most know he had something to do with the atom bomb. He encouraged the development of nuclear weapons, but he was a dedicated pacifist, and later became an anti-nuclear weapons spokesperson. Did you know he could play violin professionally? Or that his brain was stolen? As you learn more about him you will find he lead quite an interesting life. I derived these quotes from my Favorites list in the Albert Einstein Daily app.

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

"The most precious things in life are not those you get for money"

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother"

"Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy." 

"Common sense in the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."

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

"We all know light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak." 

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift," 

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking."

"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life." 

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."

"Love is a better master than duty."

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." 

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

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five." 

"I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am." 

 

"A Society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity." 

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

"A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye." 

"The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts." 

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right." 

"You can't use an old map to explore a new world."

"Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern."

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

"Never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." 

 

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

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything"

"You never fail unless you stop trying."

Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

"A cleaver person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

"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."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle."

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." 

 

"I Speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."

"Never memorize something that you can look up."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"Don't wait for a miracle, your whole life is a miracle."

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seem like an hour. That is relativity."