einstein

* The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
* The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds.
* Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?'
* The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law...
* May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!'
* Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
* The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.
* 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.
* A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
* A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
* A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
* Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
* 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.
* Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
* As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
* Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
* Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
* Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
* Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
* Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
* Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
* Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
* The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
* Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
* Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
* God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
* He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
* I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
* If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
* If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
* If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn\'t be called research, would it?