Top 78 Einstein Knowledge Quotes
#1. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#2. The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#3. It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
Albert Einstein
#4. The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#5. Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland Barthes
#6. We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
Albert Einstein
#7. Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego
Albert Einstein
#8. Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
Albert Einstein
#9. Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein
#10. Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
Albert Einstein
#11. No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.
Albert Einstein
#13. I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
Albert Einstein
#14. The mere act of dreaming is a vitalizing, life-affirming endeavor. As it turns out, using your imagination is very, very good for your wellbeing. Einstein believed that imagination was even more important than knowledge itself.
Danielle LaPorte
#15. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence
these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein
#16. It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.
Albert Einstein
#17. Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
Albert Einstein
#18. The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
Albert Einstein
#19. Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.
Albert Einstein
#21. The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
Albert Einstein
#22. The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein
#24. It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.
Albert Einstein
#25. It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
Albert Einstein
#26. Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.
Albert Einstein
#27. And knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
Albert Einstein
#28. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
#29. Ego=1/Knowledge
More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.
Albert Einstein
#30. I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed. But until this goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
Albert Einstein
#31. As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
Albert Einstein
#32. Knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy, dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
Albert Einstein
#33. Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.
Albert Einstein
#35. All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#36. Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.
Albert Einstein
#37. It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#39. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Deborah Brodie
#40. Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
Albert Einstein
#42. Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.
Albert Einstein
#43. Fantasy is way more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited.
Albert Einstein
#44. The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
Albert Einstein
#45. Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
Albert Einstein
#46. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
#47. There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
#48. True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
Albert Einstein
#49. Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
Albert Einstein
#50. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty ... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
Albert Einstein
#51. A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered by a specially designed observatory tuned for just this purpose.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#52. Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.
Albert Einstein
#54. The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap
Albert Einstein
#55. Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly indebted to it.
Albert Einstein
#57. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
#58. We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity ... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
Albert Einstein
#59. Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#60. The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#61. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
Albert Einstein
#62. Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
Albert Einstein
#63. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
Albert Einstein
#64. Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.
Chet Raymo
#65. Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#66. Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
Imre Lakatos
#67. If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.
Albert Einstein
#68. Einstein said that "imagination is more important than knowledge," because "knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Sean Patrick
#69. I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
Albert Einstein
#71. The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#73. Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
Albert Einstein
#75. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
#76. One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
#77. Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
Albert Einstein
#78. Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.
Tom Riley
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