Albert Einstein Quotes about Knowledge

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

Albert Einstein

Learning, Knowledge, Realizing

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Knowledge, Thought Provoking

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Science, Men

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

Real, Knowledge, Thinking

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

Albert Einstein

Learning, Knowledge, Firsts

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

"János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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

Writing, Knowledge, Science

"Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, 1983.

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

Beauty, Wise, Knowledge

Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: His Life and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Albert Einstein

Learning, Knowledge, Differences

Knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge

Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

"Scientifically speaking: a dictionary of quotations", Volume 1, (p. 154), 2002.

Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

Religious, Motivation, Knowledge

It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.

Albert Einstein

Giving Up, Knowledge, Science

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.349, Broadway Books

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Science, Should Have

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Science, Should Have

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Science, Men

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.22, Broadway Books

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] 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

Believe, Knowledge, Science