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Intelligence
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
-Albert Einstein
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
-Albert Einstein
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Intuition
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
-Albert Einstein
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Knowledge
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
-Albert Einstein
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
-Albert Einstein
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Language
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
-Albert Einstein
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Leadership
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
-Albert Einstein
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Learning
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Never regard 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 joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
-Albert Einstein
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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
-Albert Einstein
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Life
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
-Albert Einstein
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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
-Albert Einstein
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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
-Albert Einstein
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
-Albert Einstein
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Loneliness
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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Love
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
-Albert Einstein
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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
-Albert Einstein
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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
-Albert Einstein
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Manners
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
-Albert Einstein
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Mathematics
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Mediocrity
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein
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Mind, the
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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.
-Albert Einstein
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Miracles
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Albert Einstein
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Mistakes
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein
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Money
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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
-Albert Einstein
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Books by and about Albert Einstein