Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born physicist and the author of the special and general theories of relativity. He received the Nobel Prize in 1921, not for relativity but for explaining the photoelectric effect. After the Nazis came to power he emigrated to the United States, spending the rest of his life at Princeton.
About this theme: Life
Life is the broadest theme in any collection of quotations and therefore the most uneven. The same heading holds Seneca's letter on the shortness of time and a sentence from a greetings card. The difference usually comes down to whether a line asks something of the reader or flatters them.
More by Albert Einstein
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
More on Life
- The unexamined life is not worth living.— Socrates
- It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
- True life is lived when tiny changes occur.— Leo Tolstoy
- Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.— Marcus Aurelius
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.— Oscar Wilde