Einstein

• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." 
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." 
• "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
• "A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." 
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge." 
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." 
• "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." 
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." 
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." 
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." 
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." 
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." 
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."  
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." 
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" 
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." 
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." 
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!" 
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." 
• "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion."
• "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. "
• "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
• "As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
• "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
• "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
• "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
• "An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
• "A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
• "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "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."  
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."