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.
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
Learn from yesterday, live for today. Hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind
Albert Einstein once said, “If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” What was your moment when someone judged you like that?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else
The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”– Albert Einstein
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
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.
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.