Quotes from Albert Einstein

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein

We shall be able to solve the problem when it will be clearly evident to all that there is no other, no cheaper way out of the present situation.

If people are not laughing at your goals,then your goals are too small

WHAT is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.