Quotes from Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

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

It's man's sympathy, with all Gods creatures, that makes him truly a man.

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

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

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.

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

Play is the highest form of research.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.