Einstein, Albert
"The important thing is never to stop questioning."
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education"
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods"
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science"
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality"
"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth"
"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord"
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough"
"The important thing is not to stop questioning"
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world."
"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
"If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
"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."
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will."
"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity."
"Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish."
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality"
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom."
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - attributed
"God is subtle but he is not malicious." - attributed
"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it." - attributed
"I, at any rate, am convinced that He 'God' is not playing at dice." - letter (1926)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - On Science
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." - Out of My Later Years
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Out of My Later Years
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." - quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers
