Albert Einstein

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

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

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

I am against any form of violence, for I know that violence only leads to more violence.

It is not enough to teach a man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind of useful machine but not a harmoniously developed personality.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by temperament a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

Sometimes one has to look at the world from a distance to appreciate its beauty.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the sower of all true art and science.

The only way to escape the corrupting influence of praise is to go on working.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Imagination is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it... he who doesn't... pays it.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

My passion for social justice has often brought me into conflict with people, as has my aversion to all kinds of authority.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.