Quotes from Albert Einstein

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political 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 dull in feeling.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

once you stop learning you start dying

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

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

One picture is worth a thousand words

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn't been one big decision.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.