Life Lessons from Albert Einstein

• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

• Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

• A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

• Love is a better teacher than duty.

• If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

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

• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

• Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

• Force always attracts men of low morality.

• Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

• A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

• Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

• Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

• Information is not knowledge.

• Never lose a holy curiosity.