Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with problems longer.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.

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 blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.