Albert Einstein Individual Quotations

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.