13 Albert Einstein Quotes on Growth

Albert Einstein quotes on growth

5. Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up.

49. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

54. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

63. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

68. Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

117. The efforts of most human-beings are consumed in the struggle for their daily bread, but most of those who are, either through fortune or some special gift, relieved of this struggle are largely absorbed in further improving their worldly lot. Beneath the effort directed toward the accumulation of worldly goods lies all too frequently the illusion that this is the most substantial and desirable end to be achieved; but there is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

172. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

176. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

208. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

216. Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

239. The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.

248. The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

     Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

260. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.