Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
Reason & Sanity, ImaginationAlbert EinsteinI fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.
Foolishness, Technology, GenerationsAlbert EinsteinIf you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Children & Childhood, FairytalesAlbert EinsteinImagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.
Knowledge, Imagination, Criminal MindsAlbert EinsteinMankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Humanity, Weapons, Nuclear WeaponsAlbert EinsteinI am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself.
Ambition, Character, Self-ConfidenceAlbert EinsteinIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Ambition, ObjectivesAlbert EinsteinPeace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Understanding, Peace, VolkstrauertagAlbert EinsteinI speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
ToleranceAlbert EinsteinThe war is won, but the peace is not.
Peace, Cold War, 1945, World War IIAlbert Einstein, December 1945Education is what remains after one has forgotten, what one has learned in school.
Education, SchoolAlbert EinsteinEverybody 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, FishAlbert EinsteinSmall is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Heart, Self-Deception, Self-Confidence, SeeingAlbert Einstein in The World As I See ItIf a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk sign?
Spirit, OrderAlbert EinsteinThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Genius, FoolishnessAlbert EinsteinThe true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Imagination, IntelligenceAlbert EinsteinI never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Learning, Education, SchoolAlbert EinsteinScience without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Religion, ScienceAlbert EinsteinWe can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Thinking, Problems, InnovationAlbert EinsteinTwo things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Universe, Humanity, FoolishnessAlbert EinsteinThere are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
Miracles, LifeAlbert EinsteinI do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth - rocks!
Weapons, World War III, Nuclear WeaponsAlbert EinsteinThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
ImaginationAlbert EinsteinThe 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. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
Art, ScienceAlbert Einstein in The World As I See ItOut of clutter, find simplicity.
From discord, find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new.
Failures & MistakesAlbert EinsteinAnyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
TruthAlbert EinsteinWhen a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Women, MinutesAlbert EinsteinThe world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Good & EvilAlbert EinsteinIf A is success in life, then A=x+y+z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Work, SuccessAlbert EinsteinIf 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.
MusicAlbert EinsteinThe release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Nuclear Energy, Nuclear WeaponsAlbert EinsteinNot everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert EinsteinCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Mind & ApprehensionAlbert EinsteinWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Nature & Environment, ScienceAlbert EinsteinI believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
Life, MeaningAlbert Einstein, Interview: Rabindranath TagoreIntellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Learning, Education, IntelligenceAlbert EinsteinA question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert EinsteinSince the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
Mathematics, ScienceAlbert EinsteinTaken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.
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