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pastwisdom timeless wisdom for modern living sign in sign up home authors tags verified search quote of the day verified life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance you must keep moving albert einstein physicist verified confirmed by our editorial team we traced this quote to a primary published source and confirmed the words are genuinely the author s you can cite it with confidence source the ultimate quotable einstein edited by alice calaprice princeton university press 2010 entry for life is like riding a bicycle citing einstein s letter to eduard einstein february 5 1930 editorial note we traced this line to a specific dated primary source a letter albert einstein wrote to his son eduard tete on february 5 1930 where he expressed the idea in german as beim menschen ist es wie beim velo nur wenn er fährt kann er bequem die balance halten this is documented in alice calaprice s carefully edited reference work devoted to einstein s quotations and independently examined by quote investigator which likewise ties the sentiment to that same 1930 letter to eduard we should be candid that the polished english wording commonly seen today life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance you must keep moving is a smoothed out translation rather than a word for word rendering of the german which reads more literally as with people it is like with a bicycle only when moving can one comfortably keep one s balance one of our review passes could not locate the exact english phrasing in einstein s collected works and raised the possibility of a later self help origin but no specific competing author or earlier documented use was ever named so that lead does not rise to a genuine dispute or misattribution it reflects the gap between the paraphrased english and the german original not a different source the metaphor the substance and the dated correspondence are all traceable to einstein s own hand on the strength of that documented letter we are marking this quotation as verified with the caveat that the familiar english wording is a paraphrase of einstein s original german translations english 中文 español العربية français فارسی 日本語 explore by author abraham lincoln mahatma gandhi albert einstein aristotle confucius rumi buddha william shakespeare mark twain oscar wilde marcus aurelius drake explore by topic motivation philosophy wisdom life love empowerment positivity happiness courage leadership strength hope inspirational friendship motivational funny show another quote home about terms of service privacy policy data deletion copyright 2026 s2dio inc