“A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.”
— Albert Einstein
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“Time is an illusion.”
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
“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.”
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will get you everywhere.”
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”
“Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
“Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.”
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.”
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
“Love is a better master than duty.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.”
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.”
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
“Information is not knowledge.”
“I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
“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.”
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
“The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.”
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.”
“I see my life in terms of music.”
“One cannot alter a condition with the same mindset that created it in the first place.”
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”
“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.”
“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
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