Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotations [Page 3]

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

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

I live my daydreams in music.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

Intelligence and genius

I never allow myself to become discouraged under any circumstances. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work, second, stick-to-ittiveness, third, common sense.

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.