"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."
"Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens."
"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever."
"Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up."
"What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field."
"Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not."
"I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious."
"Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."
"I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
"We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
"To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself."
"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."
"Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size."
"Never memorize what you can look up in books."
"It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service...Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
"My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
"I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship."
"Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
"The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God."
"The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living."
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self."
"The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state."
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
