‘I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones’
Imagination is more important than knowledge
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.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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.
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.
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Great spirits have always encountered violent 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.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
You never fail until you stop trying.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
Love is a better master than duty.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Time is an illusion.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Information is not knowledge.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Nothing happens until something moves.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible
Imagination is the highest form of research.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, But by those who watch them without doing anything.
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