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He once remarked that when he examined himself and his methods of thought, he found that the gift of imagination had meant more than any talent for absorbing knowledge.
He added that all great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge.
Einstein was a strong believer in intuition and inspiration.
According to Einstein, he very rarely thought in words at all.
Albert Einstein Creativity And Curiosity Tips
Anyway, here is a great selection of Albert Einstein quotes on creativity, curiosity, intuition and being yourself.
“The greatest scientists are artists as well.” – Albert Einstein
(The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Collected And Edited By Alice Calaprice, On Science And Mathematics, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 201, P. 379) source
(The quote is also found in: The Quotable Einstein Collected And Edited By Alice Calaprice, On Science And Mathematics, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, P. 171) source
Note: From a remark by Einstein, as recalled by professor of Mathematics, Archibald Henderson, Durham Morning Herald, August 21, 1955.
“The origin of all technical achievements is the divine curiosity and the play instinct of the working and thinking researcher as well as the constructive fantasy of the technical inventor.” – Albert Einstein
“Der Urquell aller technischen Errungenschaften ist die göttliche Neugier und der Spieltrieb des bastelnden und grübelnden Forschers und nicht minder die konstruktive Phantasie des technischen Erfinders.” (German)
(Einstein’s Speech On Occasion Of The Opening Of The Radio Show In 1930, www.einstein-website.de) source
(The quote in German is also found in: Neue Bahnen, Volume 42 By Johannes Meyer, Heinrich Scherer (1851- ed), Ewald Hiemann, Rudolf Schulze (ed), Feodor Lindemann, Leipzig: Voigtländers Verlag, 1931, P. 536) source
*You can hear the recorded speech in German here.)
Note: From Albert Einstein’s speech on the exhibition site at the radio tower in Berlin Charlottenburg, August 22 in 1930.
“Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.’ – Albert Einstein
“Ohne schöpferische, selbständig denkende und urtelende Persönlichkeiten ist eine Höherentwicklung der Gesellschaft ebensowenig denkbar wie die Entwicklung der einzelnen Persönlichkeit ohne den Nährbodender Gemeinschaft.” (German)
(Ideas And Opinions By Albert Einstein Based On Mein Weltbild, Edited By Carl Seelig, And Other Sources, New Translations And Revisions By Sonja Bargmann, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1954, Pt. I: Ideas And Opinions, Society And Personality, P. 14) source
(The quote in German is found in: Mein Weltbild Von Albert Einstein, Herausgegeben Von Carl Seelig, Berlin: Ullstein-Taschenbuch-Verlag 2005, I. Wie Ich Die Welt Sehe, Gemeinschaft Und Persönlichkeit, P. 12 ) source
“It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.” – Albert Einstein
(Einstein: His Life And Universe By Walter Isaacson, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007, Ch. One, The Light-Beam Rider, Einstein’s Road to Relativity, P. 7) source
Note: From Einstein’s message for Ben Scheman dinner, March 1952.
Einstein: His Life And Universe By Walter Isaacson
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“For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” – Albert Einstein
“Denn alles was wirklich gross und erhebend ist, wird vom Individuum geschaffen in freiem Streben.” (German)
(“Morals And Emotions” – Commencement Address At Swarthmore College, June 6, 1938 From Swarthmore Sesquicentennial) source
(The quote is also found in: Out Of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher And Man Portrayed Through His Own Words By Albert Einstein, New York: Open Road Media, 2011, Convictions And Beliefs, 7. Morals And Emotions(1938) source
Out Of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, And Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
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“We have to learn to think in a new way.” – Albert Einstein
(The Russell-Einstein Manifesto Issued In London, 9 July 1955, P. 1) source
“Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking…” – Albert Einstein
(What Life Means To Einstein: An Interview By George Sylvester Viereck, Our Intellectual Democracy, The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929, P. 113) source
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
“Fantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen. Wissen ist begrenzt. Imagination umgibt die Welt.” (German)
(What Life Means To Einstein: An Interview By George Sylvester Viereck, The Measles Of Mankind, The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929, P. 117) source
“…do not stop to think… about the reasons for what you are doing, about why you are questioning. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
(Death Of A Genius: His Fourth Dimension, Time Overtakes Einstein By William Miller, LIFE Magazine, Vol.38, No.18, May 2, 1955, P. 64) source
“One is always seeing things without being sure that one does see them.” – Albert Einstein
(Death Of A Genius: His Fourth Dimension, Time Overtakes Einstein By William Miller, LIFE Magazine, Vol.38, No.18, May 2, 1955, P. 64) source
“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.” – Albert Einstein
(Death Of A Genius: His Fourth Dimension, Time Overtakes Einstein By William Miller, LIFE Magazine, Vol.38, No.18, May 2, 1955, P. 64) source
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein
(Death Of A Genius: His Fourth Dimension, Time Overtakes Einstein By William Miller, LIFE Magazine, Vol.38, No.18, May 2, 1955, P. 64) source
“Don’t stop to marvel.” – Albert Einstein
(Death Of A Genius: His Fourth Dimension, Time Overtakes Einstein By William Miller, LIFE Magazine, Vol.38, No.18, May 2, 1955, P. 64) source
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein
“Das Schönste, was wir erleben können, ist das Geheimnisvolle. Es ist das Grundgefühl, das an der Wiege von wahrer Kunst und Wissenschaft steht. Wer es nicht kennt und sich nicht mehr wundern kann, der ist sozusagen tot und sein Auge erloschen.” (German)
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“…the causal way of interpreting things…merely answers the question,“Why?” but never the question “What for?” – Albert Einstein
“…die kausale Betrachtungsweise der Dinge…Diese Betrachtungsweise antwortet immer nur auf die Frage „Warum?“ aber nie auf die Frage „Wozu?“ (German)
(The quote in German is found in: The Collected Papers Of Albert Einstein, Volume 9: The Berlin Years: Correspondence January 1919-April 1920, Edited by Diana Kormos Buchwald, Robert Schulmann, József Illy, Daniel J. Kennefick, & Tilman Sauer, Doc. 97, To Hedwig Born, Berlin, Sonntag. 31 August 1919, P. 143)
Note: From the letter to Hedwig Born, August 31, 1919.
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.” – Albert Einstein
(What Life Means To Einstein: An Interview By George Sylvester Viereck, The Measles Of Mankind, The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929, P. 117) source
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
“Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig.” (German)
(The quote in German is found in: )
Note: From what Einstein told his biographer, Carl Seelig, March 11, 1952.
Note: There is another similar quote:
“I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person, and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution.” – Albert Einstein
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“I do not believe individuals possess any unique gifts. I only believe that there exists on one hand talent and on the other hand developed qualifications.” – Albert Einstein
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“A wonder of such nature I experienced as a child of 4 or 5 years, when my father showed me a compass. That this needle behaved in such a determined way did not fit into the nature of events…Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.” – Albert Einstein
“Ein Wunder solcher Art erlebte ich als Kind von 4 oder 5 Jahren, als mir mein Vater einen Kompass zeigte. Dass diese Nadel in so bestimmter Weise sich benahm, passte so gar nicht in die Art des Geschehens hinein…Da musste etwas hinter den Dingen sein, das tief verborgen war.” (German)
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(The second part of the quote is found here.)
(The quote in German is found in: Albert Einstein: Philosopher-scientist Edited And Translated By Paul Arthur Schilpp, Harper & Brothers, 1959, I. Einstein’s Autobiography, Albert Einstein: “Autobiographical Notes” (in German And English Translation), P. 8)
(The second part is found here.)
(The third part is found here.)
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Albert Einstein
“A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way… But… intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.” – Albert Einstein
“Eine neue Idee ergibt sich plötzlich und mehr oder weniger intuitiv. Aber Intuition ist nichts anderes als das Ergebnis früherer intellektueller Erfahrungen.” (German)
Note: From the letter to Dr. Hirsch. Loeb Gordon, May 3, 1949.
(The quote in German is found in: The Innovators: Die Vordenker Der Digitalen Revolution von Ada Lovelace Bis Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson, Translated By Susanne Kuhlmann-Krieg, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2018, Mauchlys Besuch Bei Atanasoff)
“Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.” – Albert Einstein
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“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and full in feeling.” – Albert Einstein
“Als das eigentlich Wertvolle im menschlichen Getriebe, empfinde ich nicht den Staat, sondern das schöpferische und fühlende Individuum, die Persönlichkeit: sie Allein schafft das Edle und Sublime, während die Herde als solche stumpf im Denken und stumpf im Fühlen Bleibt.” (German)
(The quote in German is found in: Mein Weltbild Von Albert Einstein, Herausgegeben Von Carl Seelig, Ullstein-Taschenbuch-Verlag 2005, I. Wie Ich Die Welt Sehe, P. 9)
(The quote in German is also found and here.)
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“What is truly valuable in our bustle of life is not the nation, I should say, but the creative and impressionable individuality, the personality — he who produces the noble and sublime while the common herd remains dull in thought and insensible in feeling.” – Albert Einstein
(Einstein, Albert in Living Philosophies Simon and Schuster, New York 1931)
(This English translation is also found in: Living Philosophies, Contributed By Albert Einstein AMS Press, 1979, P. 5)
“Whether it be a work of art or a significant scientific achievement; that which is great and noble comes from the solitary personality.” – Albert Einstein
“Das Grosse und Edle kommt von der einsamen Persönlichkeit, sei es ein Kunstwerk oder eine bedeutende schöpferische wissenschaftliche Leistung.” (German)
(The quote in German is found in: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives Selected And Edited By Helen Dukas & Banesh Hoffmann, Princeton University Press, 1981, P. 154)
“Never lose a holy curiosity.” – Albert Einstein
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