10 Best Quotes from Albert Einstein

In this article we are going to list the 10 Best Quotes from Albert Einstein. For a detailed coverage of this topic and a more comprehensive list please head on over to the 25 Best Quotes from Albert Einstein.

10. “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”

Einstein had the knowledge to come up with the theory of relativity and the brilliance to convey it in layman’s terms so that any of us could understand thanks to the above quote, which is among the best quotes by Albert Einstein.

9. “It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor. I can’t say how old I was — but surely not less than three.”

Even the best of us have faced struggles in our life, but to surpass them and take on challenges is what separates the best from the rest, though I do admit, that this reeks of survivor’s fallacy.

8. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.”

The best scientists remain curious as that helps them discover.

7. “As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.”

The secrets of the universe are too supreme to be deduced by even the most intelligent of minds.

6. “Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.”

Everyone’s common sense is simply based on preconceived notions which need to be challenged to increase one’s learning.

5. “My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a ‘lone traveler’ and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.”

Being comfortable with yourself is an art in and of itself, and Einstein seemed to have mastered it.

4. “If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self; so, the hell with it.”

Famous for his unkempt hair and giant moustache, Einstein didn’t care to conform to society’s standards.

3. “The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible.”

Einstein’s belief in the abstract was much more important than worldly pleasures. He could easily have been many times richer than he was, but that was of no interest to him; being a better person was.

2. “The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.”

As seen above, Einstein was critical of the current education system and also believed in the highest purpose being to support the community.

1. “Why is it that nobody understands me, and everybody likes me?”

Topping the list of the 25 best quotes from Albert Einstein is a humdinger. It is true that perhaps few of us could understand him properly, with most of us restricted to the image we’ve formed of him, whether accurate or not. Yet, the fame and reverence he earned can barely be compared to anyone.