Quotes from Albert Einstein

It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Once you stop learning, you start dying

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

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

Education is not received. It is achieved.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

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

Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.