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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life...  
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.  
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, educ...  
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main pro...  
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.  
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy...  
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man n...  
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and...  
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justic...   Politics
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-...   Science
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.  
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to...  
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for...  
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at...  
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the spr...  
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.  
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by ...  
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.  
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It ta...  
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It tak...  
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not...  
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be tru...  
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.  
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.  
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certa...  
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.  
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the im...  
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.  
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of al...  
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to ch...  
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality o...  
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you ...  
Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me  
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely hel...  
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional...  
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned...  
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mut...  
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.  
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces ...  
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.  
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.  
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything ...  
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hear...  
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which di...  
Force always attracts men of low morality.  
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to it...  
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked...  
God always takes the simplest way.  
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates e...  
God does not play dice.  
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.  
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.   Love
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre...  
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good...  
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contemp...  
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned m...  
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense...   Patriotism
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wi...  
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief s...  
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot fi...  
Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral stand...  
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imaginati...  
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to figh...  
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the...   Science
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for ever...  
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his cre...  
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual w...  
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethi...  
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes ...  
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought w...  
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World ...  
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!  
I have just got a new theory of eternity.  
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look ...  
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - su...  
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World W...  
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity...  
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in th...  
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to Presid...  
I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble d...  
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.  
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclus...  
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of th...  
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.  
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.  
I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details  
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y ...   Life
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.  
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let ...  
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me...  
If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and loo...  
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for rew...  
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.  
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,...  
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.  
Imagination is more important than knowledge.  
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large ...  
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must abov...  
Information is not knowledge.  
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting diffe...  
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.  
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should b...  
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorr...  
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our...  
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education  
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of...  
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he d...  
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.  
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.  
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative express...  
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.  
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the h...  
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that enge...  
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer...   Intelligence
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.  
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps...  
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be...  
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important...  
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.  
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.  
Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; o...  
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.   Nature
Love is a better teacher than duty.  
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.  
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.  
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.   Religion
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and m...  
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scient...  
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superio...  
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.   Patriotism
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human r...  
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.  
Never lose a holy curiosity.  
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn...  
Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to ...  
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experim...   Science
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that cre...  
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that cou...  
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life fo...  
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law ...  
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction be...  
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification ...  
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.  
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the cust...  
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some o...  
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.  
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and so...  
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'...   Science
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassio...  
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understandin...  
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees resul...  
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age  
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fu...  
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.  
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have alw...  
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created t...  
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.  
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like anhour. S...  
Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that...  
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creat...  
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.   Science
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living...  
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.   Science
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with t...  
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more...  
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short...  
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.  
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological c...  
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning...  
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successfu...  
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we ...  
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its lim...  
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbor...  
The environment is everything that isn't me.  
The faster you go, the shorter you are.  
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no...  
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor ti...  
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing ...  
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empiri...  
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.   Business
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.  
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the jo...  
The important thing is not to stop questioning.  
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solut...  
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, ...  
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind...  
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks  
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is th...  
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our ...  
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehe...  
The only real valuable thing is intuition.  
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.  
The only source of knowledge is experience.  
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.  
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belie...  
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refu...  
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the lev...   Politics
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight ...   Science
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we ar...  
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a proble...  
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thi...  
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has mer...  
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion whi...  
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an i...  
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.  
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of...  
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.  
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.  
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes ...  
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he ...  
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thi...  
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary te...  
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who ...  
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is...  
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but...  
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. Ther...  
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings an...  
They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation,...  
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.  
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causa...  
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself a...  
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of e...  
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from...  
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a soun...  
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel ...  
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative arti...   Art
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one...  
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of ...   Success
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not...   Funny
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.  
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we cr...  
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining wit...  
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace t...  
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is ...  
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of cour...   Intelligence
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character  
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute...  
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclus...  
When the solution is simple, God is answering.  
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When yo...   Funny
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishe...  
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted ...  
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge...  
Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier,...  
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for ...  
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ev...  
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.  
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.  
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull h...