When most people think of Einstein, they think of the theory of relativity and “the world’s most famous equation,” E=MC². However, we can learn a lot more from Einstein than just scientific formulas and theories.
Albert Einstein also offered renowned knowledge of becoming your best self and enjoying life to the fullest.
Even if you have no interest in science, you can still apply these valuable lessons today.
11 Life-Changing Lessons to Learn from Einstein
1. Value Your Imagination
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” -Einstein
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” -Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For 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.” -Einstein
“Imagination is the highest form of research.” –Einstein
2. Never Stop Being Curious
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” -Einstein
3. Be Willing to Learn New Things
“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.” – Einstein
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” -Einstein
4. Realize that Growth Comes Out of Failure
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.” – Albert Einstein
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. – Albert Einstein
“Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.” —Albert Einstein
5. Dare to be Different and Take Initiative
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” – Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the evil people, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” – Albert Einstein
6. Live in the Moment and Realize that Beauty Exists Everywhere
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
“I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” Albert Einstein
7. Live Selflessly and Value Others
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person.”
“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
“Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them—these are the best guides for man.” – Albert Einstein
8. Your Thoughts Create Your Reality
“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
9. Unleash Your Greatness
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
10. Be Kind to All Living Beings On Earth
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
11. Trust Your Inner Voice
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
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