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Never lose a holy curiosity.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change.
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.
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It´s not that I´m so smart; it´s just that I stay with problems longer.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you
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Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
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sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.
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A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
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Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
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Try not to become just a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk?
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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to Think.
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Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
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In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still greater.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
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If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
