Albert Einstein

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.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

The remains of the old must be decently laid away; the path of the new prepared. That is the difference between Revolution and Progress.

Life’s three best teachers: heartbreak, empty pocket, failures.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

There is no mistake in nature.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.