Einstein’s 30 Classic Quotes: As Long As You Don’t Give Up Trying, You Will Never Fail
1I never think about the future. Because it comes too fast.
2Education is what remains after one has forgotten all that one learned at school.
3The meaning of time is that nothing can be realized immediately.
4Everyone has a talent, but if judged by the ability to climb a tree, a fish will think its whole life is stupid.
5A person who has never made a mistake has never tried new things.
6Life will give you what you want, as long as you keep asking for it, as long as you make it clear when you ask.
7Weaknesses in attitude will become character weaknesses.
8Logic will take you from A to B, and imagination can take you anywhere.
9The difference between genius and stupidity is that a genius has limits.
10If an idea isn't absurd at first, it's hopeless.
11Between talent and diligence, I hesitate not to choose the latter. She is almost the midwife of all human achievements.
12It is harder to break a prejudice than to break an atom.
13Common sense is the accumulation of prejudices by the age of eighteen.
14Putting your hand on a hot stove for a minute feels like an hour. Sitting by a beautiful girl for an hour feels like a minute. This is relativity.
15It is often more important to ask a question than to solve a problem, because solving a problem may only be a mathematical or experimental skill. Asking new questions, new possibilities, seeing old questions from a new angle, all require creative imagination and mark the true progress of science.
16I am not necessarily smart, I just spend a lot of time with problems.
17Differences among people arise from spare time. Spare time can make a person, but it can also ruin a person.
18A person's true value is determined first by to what extent they are freed from themselves.
19Don't complain about life, that only proves your incompetence. The strong never complain about life.
20The most beautiful things in the world are having a few friends with honest minds and spirits.
21Marriage is undoubtedly slavery disguised as civilization.
22Those who are careless about the truth in small matters are also untrustworthy in big matters.
23There are two things that are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.
24There is no luck, even the most accidental events seem to be inevitable.
25In order to punish my disregard for authority, fate has turned me into an authority myself.
26As long as you don't give up trying, you will never fail.
27I don't believe in a personalized god.
28I have a large circle to represent my knowledge, but the circle outside is so vast, it means ignorance to me. The larger the circle, the longer its circumference, the greater the contact between the circumference and the outside void. Therefore, I realize how much I don't know.
29What truly interests me is whether God created the world with other options.
30Simple and pure life is beneficial to everyone, both physically and spiritually.
