When you think of Albert Einstein, you might picture that wild hair, a chalkboard full of equations, and a mind that seemed to see the universe in a whole new way. Einstein is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, known as the mind behind the theory of relativity.
But behind all that, he had some pretty deep things to say about life, science, and just being human. Beyond being a scientific genius, Einstein had a way with words that could make you pause and think, “Huh, that actually makes sense.”
So, if you’re here looking for a bit of wisdom, this collection of Einstein’s quotes has you covered. Let’s see what the mind behind relativity has to say about life in general.
Table of Contents
- Best Albert Einstein Quotes
- Witty Albert Einstein Quotes
- Motivational Albert Einstein Quotes
- Albert Einstein Quotes About Life
- Albert Einstein Quotes About Humanity
- Albert Einstein Quotes About Love
- Albert Einstein Quotes on Imagination
- Albert Einstein Quotes on Science
- Albert Einstein Quotes About Time
- Albert Einstein Quotes About Education
- Albert Einstein Quotes About Intelligence
- Albert Einstein Quotes About Success
- More Albert Einstein Quotes
- Final Thoughts
Best Albert Einstein Quotes
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.”
- “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
- “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
- “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
- “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
- “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
- “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
- “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
- “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
- “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
- “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
- “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
- “The only source of knowledge is experience.”
- “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
- “What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.”
Witty Albert Einstein Quotes
- “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
- “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
- “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
- “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
- “Once you stop learning, you start dying.”

- “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
- “An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
- “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
- “To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
- “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
- “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Motivational Albert Einstein Quotes
- “I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.”
- “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
- “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
- “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

- “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
- “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
- “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.”
- “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
- “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Albert Einstein Quotes About Life
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
- “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
- “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
- “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
- “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
- “The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

- “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
- “I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
- “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
- “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
- “The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”
- “There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.”
- “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
Albert Einstein Quotes About Humanity
- “Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
- “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.”
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
- “The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
- “Without deep reflection, one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”
- “Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
- “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

- “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
- “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
- “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.”
- “The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
- “The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”
- “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.”
- “We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”
- “Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive.”
- “It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.”
- “The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”
- “The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
Albert Einstein Quotes About Love
- “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
- “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
- “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
- “Love is a better master than duty.”

- “How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
- “Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.”
- “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
- “There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.”
Albert Einstein Quotes on Imagination
- “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
- “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- “I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.”
- “Imagination is the highest form of research.”

- “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
- “The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
- “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 Quotes on Science
- “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” — The World As I See It
- “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” — Science and Religion
- “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
- “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
- “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
- “The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.”

- “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
- “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
- “Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
- “It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.”
- “The man of science is a poor philosopher.”
Albert Einstein Quotes About Time
- “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
- “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”
- “Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”
- “Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.”

- “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
- “The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
- “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
- “The past, present, and future are only illusions, even if stubborn ones.”
- “The faster you go, the shorter you are.”
- “Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.”
Albert Einstein Quotes About Education
- “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
- “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
- “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
- “Example isn’t another way to teach; it is the only way to teach.”

- “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
- “Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”
- “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”
- “It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”
Albert Einstein Quotes About Intelligence
- “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
- “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
- “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
- “The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.”
- “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.”
- “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

- “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.”
- “Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.”
- “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.”
- “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
- “Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
- “Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
Albert Einstein Quotes About Success
- “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.”
- “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.”
- “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
- “Failure is success in progress.”

- “I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.”
- “Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work.”
- “The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
- “Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
- “It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
More Albert Einstein Quotes
- “I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.”
- “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”

- “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
- “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
- “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Final Thoughts
Albert Einstein’s words had a way of making deep ideas feel simple yet powerful. It’s pretty amazing how his insights can make you stop and think, no matter where you are in life.
I hope you found something in these quotes that resonates with you. Maybe a bit of motivation, a new way of looking at things, or just a moment to smile. Einstein showed us that being curious and keeping an open mind can take us far, and that’s a lesson that never gets old.