Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.