Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

How To Achieve The Moral Breakdown Of The Enemy Before The War Has Started — That Is The Problem That Interests Me. Whoever Has Experienced War At The Front Will Want To Refrain From All Avoidable Bloodshed.

Life Is Like A Mirror, If You Frown At It, It Frowns Back; If You Smile, It Returns The Greeting.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

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

The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.