“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. Imagination is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein

“Man owes his strength in the struggle for existance to the fact that he is a socially living animal.” – Albert Einstein

“One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality…. Never lose a holy curiosity.” – Albert Einstein

“The most important method of education accordingly always has consisted of the where pupil was urged to actual performance.” – Albert Einstein

“For a community of standardized individuals without personal originality and personal aims would be a poor community without possibilities for development.” – Albert Einstein

“To me the worst thing seems to be for a school principally to work with methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity, and the self-confidence of the pupil. It produces the submissive subject.” – Albert Einstein

“Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.” – Albert Einstein

“The value of a man… should be seen in what he gives and not what he is able to receive.” – Albert Einstein

“The most important motive for work in the school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its results, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.” – Albert Einstein

“Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.” – Albert Einstein

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgement should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. 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.” – Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.” – Albert Einstein

“From the standpoint of daily life, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.” – Albert Einstein

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.” – Albert Einstein

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.” – Albert Einstein

“Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible.” – Albert Einstein

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.” – Albert Einstein

“To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.” – Albert Einstein

“I am a horse for single harness, not cut out for tandem or team work…. I lose something by it, to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions, and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.” – Albert Einstein

“My political ideal is democracy. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. It is an irony of fate that I should have been showered with so much uncalled for and unmerited admiration and esteem.” – Albert Einstein

“Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proved that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.” – Albert Einstein

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein