The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

You can’t solve a problem on the same level you created it.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough

Ego=1/Knowledge” More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

The question hat drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to...

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor...

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with...

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of...

The world needs heroes and it’s better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and...

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.

Here I am, just an actress with nothing to say and crowds of people turn up to see me. Yet here is Einstein and the only person who turns up for him is myself.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of...

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility...

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...

You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

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.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”[Moral...

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with...

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner...

We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we created them.

Intelligent life on other planets? I’m not even sure there is on earth!

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its...

Know where to find the information and how to use it – That’s the secret of success

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem – in my opinion – to characterize our age

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity… what is still lacking here is...

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other...