Albert Einstein

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

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.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

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

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.

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

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

I don’t read history. That’s in the past. I’m thinking of the future.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

I don’t follow what everybody else does.

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.