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 technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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 technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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