My Favorite Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein would have to be one of my greatest inspirations. Some of the things he said during his life were so profound and insightful, that I was left with goosebumps the first time I heard them. Here are some of my favorite Einstein quotes to share with you... Enjoy!

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
• "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. "
• "Only two things are Infinite; 'The Universe' and 'Human Stupidity'; and I am not too sure about the former."
• "If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
• "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
• "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."
• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
• "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

• "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
• If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
• "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
• "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
• "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
• "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
• "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
  
  

• "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."
• "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
• "Force always attracts men of low morality."
• "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."
• "I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
• "As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
• "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."
• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

• "Love is a better teacher than duty. "
• "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
• "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
• "It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

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