- "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." - 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
- "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein [contested attribution]
- "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
- "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein [contested attribution]
- "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." - Albert Einstein
- "Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein
- "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." - Albert Einstein
- "Everybody 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." - Albert Einstein [contested attribution]
- "Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open." - Albert Einstein
- "Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein
- "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment." - Albert Einstein
- "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
- "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
- "I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein, "Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms".
- "I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research." - Albert Einstein
- "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
- "I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein
- "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
- "If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
- "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein
- "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." - Albert Einstein
- "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
- "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." - Albert Einstein
- "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein
- "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
- "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein
- "It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it." - Albert Einstein
- "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein
- "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
- "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized." - Albert Einstein
- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
- "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein
- "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein
- "Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: It is character." - Albert Einstein
- "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts." - Albert Einstein
- "Never memorize something that you can look up." - Albert Einstein
- "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein [Disputed attribution. Also attributed to Bruce Cameron]
- "Nothing happens until something moves." - Albert Einstein
- "Only life lived for others is worth while (sic)." — Albert Einstein [Source: New York Times, June 20, 1932, p. 17]
- "Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible." - Albert Einstein
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."- Albert Einstein
- "Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of the difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
- "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age." - Albert Einstein
- "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
- "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
- "Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." - Albert Einstein
- "Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received." - Albert Einstein
- "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein
- "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein
- "The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
- "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ... the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." - Albert Einstein
- "The only source of knowledge is experience." -Albert Einstein
- "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein
- "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." - Albert Einstein
- "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein
- "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - 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
- "There is nothing that is a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different." - Albert Einstein
- "Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; from discord find harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
- "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious." - Albert Einstein
- "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." - Albert Einstein
- "Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
- "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
- "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
- "When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about." - Albert Einstein
- "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
- "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." - Albert Einstein
- "Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein
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