The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

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.

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

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.

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.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it

I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.