25 Life Lessons from Albert Einstein
#1. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
#2. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
#3. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
#4. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
#5. A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
#6. Love is a better teacher than duty.
#7. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
#8. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
#9. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
#10. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
#11. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
#12. Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
#13. Force always attracts men of low morality.
#14. Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
#15. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
#16. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
#17. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
#18. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
#19. Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
#20. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
#21. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
#22. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
#23. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
#24. Information is not knowledge.
#25. Never lose a holy curiosity.