Quotes from Albert Einstein

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.

Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.