The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein - Values - True - Determination - People - Self Control - Freedom

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein - Determination - Commitment - Strength - True

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein - True - Great - Challenges - Spirit - Understanding - Opinions - Courage

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein - Imagination - Important - Knowledge - Inspirational - World

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
Albert Einstein - People - Passionate - Social - Responsibility

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it
Albert Einstein - Wealth - Money - Ideas - Selfish

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein - Passionate - Talent - Curiosity

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
Albert Einstein - Values - Knowledge - Belief - Intelligence - Attitude - Education - Ethics

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein - Important - Inspirational - Curiosity - Questions

To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.
Albert Einstein - Responsibility - War - Power - Governments - Insanity

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein - Inspirational - Ideas - Knowledge - Risk

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein - Happiness - Now - Thinking