The Wisdom of Einstein

• Knowledge:
  The Search for the truth and Knowledge is one of the finest attributes of a man, though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
• Authority:
  To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate has made me an authority myself.
• Truth:
  It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is easy to recognize a falsehood.
• Cooperation:
  A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, 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.
• Wisdom:
  Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
• Greatness:
  There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
• Happiness:
  A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
• Fame:
  With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
• Life:
  Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
• Ageing:
  I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.
• Praise:
  The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
• Problems:
  Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
• Relativity:
  An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.
• Goals:
  One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.
• Racism:
  The only remedies against race and prejudice are enlightenment and education. This is a slow and painstaking process.
• Solitude:
  I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
• Value:
  Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
• Imagination:
  When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of imagination has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing absolute knowledge