Quotes from Albert Einstein

Nothing happens until something moves.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

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.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.