Einstein, Albert

"The man who never made a mistake will never try anything new."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen."

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are allowed to remain children all our lives."

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend fifty-five minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions."

"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking at which we created them."

"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A person who lives fully is prepared to die at any moment."

"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power revealed in the knowable world is my idea of God."

"Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as we are living it."

"The answer is simple. It is the questions that are complicated."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones."

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats."

"Do not grow old, no matter what you do, you will not be successful."

"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear, and greed."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."