Albert Enstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all te...