In the words of Albert Einstein:
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection.
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.
It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.
A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.
I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.
We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
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