Albert Einstein

Do not stop to think about the reason for what you are doing, about why you are questioning.

Human value depends on liberation from the self.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He...

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the...

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the...

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. (Letter to Barbara Lee Wilson, 7 January 1943)

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

He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives....

...certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

You don't remember your own number? the man asked, startled. "No,"...

...the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

...Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead...

Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.

...free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

...egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash.