"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions"
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new"
"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem"
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be"
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue"
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new"
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either"
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves"
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction"
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools"
"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser"
"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions"
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized"
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater"
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age"
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations"
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding"
"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"
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"
"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"
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile"
"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion"
"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them"
"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature"
"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God"
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"
"Love is a better teacher than duty"
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits"
"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat"
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while"
"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God"
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal"
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious"
"I have just got a new theory of eternity"
"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed"
"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil"
"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it"
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty"
"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind"
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death"
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"