Albert Einstein Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

2. An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

3. Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

4. Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

5. Black holes are where God divided by zero.

6. Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

7. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

8. 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.

9. I 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 anything you believe is evil.

10. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

11. I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

12. 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

13. If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

14. It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

15. It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

16. Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.

17. Love is a better master than duty.

18. Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

19. Never memorize something that you can look up.

20. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

21. No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

22. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

23. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

24. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ~

25. Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

26. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

27. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

28. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

29. The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

30. Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.