Albert Einstein

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

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

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

We’re cool for the summer.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

All systems either of preference or of restraint … completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.