- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
- The only source of knowledge is experience
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- If the facts don‘t fit the theory, change the facts
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
- If you can‘t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
- Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
- Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
- Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
- Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!
- Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
- The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
- I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
- Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
- I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Force always attracts men of low morality.
- I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don’t stop to marvel.
- we should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve.
- I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
- To simplify the concept of relativity, I always use the following example: if you sit with a girl on a garden bench and the moon is shining, then for you the hour will be a minute. However, if you sit on a hot stove, the minute will be an hour.
- Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
- Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.
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