Einstein, Albert

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

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

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Curiosity is a very natural and fundamental human trait."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important ones."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research."

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe'."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of all being."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life."

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth but delicious in the years of maturity."

"The important thing is to not stop questioning."

"Everything is relative."

"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."