Albert Einstein

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

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

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Always pack your uniform on top.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

If you harbor hatred, anger, and bitterness (towards her), then you are absolutely locked into a bond through those negative emotions.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.