Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. He was a physicist who developed the general theory of relativity.
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| 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955 |
His best quotes:
1.You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
2.Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
3.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.
4.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.
5.If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
6.If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
7.We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
8.If people are good only because the fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
9.I believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
10.The only source of knowledge is experience.
11.Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
12.Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
13.Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
14.Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer care.
15.There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
16.Only a life lived for others is life worthwhile.
17.The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
18.A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
19.I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
20.I fear the day when people post memes on the Internet with quotes I’ve never said.
21.Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
22.The difference between Genius and Stupidity is, Genius has its limits.
23.Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
24.I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
25.The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
26.The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
27.You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
28.I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
29.Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
30.Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
31.Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
32.Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
33.Weakness of Attitude becomes weakness of character.
34.Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
35.The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
36.Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.
37.The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
38.If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it will enough.
39.If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
40.Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
41.The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
42.The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
43.I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
44.Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
45.A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
46.As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
47.Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
48.I believe that a simple and unsophisticated life is the best thing both for body and soul.
49.Any 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.
50.Never memorize something that you can look up.
51.Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
52.Once you stop learning, you start dying.
53.I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
54.The only real valuable thing is intuition.
55.Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
56.To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
57.Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal job and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
58.Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earn it... He who doesn't... pays it.
59.Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
60.Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all facts.
61.Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
62.Peace cannot be kept by force: it can only be achieved by understanding.
63.Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
64.In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems. For issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
65.Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
66.Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
67.Look deep into nature then you will understand everything better.
68.The separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.
69.The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
70.Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you have not succeeded yet.
71.If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
72.Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
73.Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.
