Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Albert EinsteinHumiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
Albert EinsteinMan's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
Albert EinsteinThe mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap
Albert EinsteinThe conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
Albert Einstein