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- A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
- A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
- Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
- Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
- Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
- I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
- I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
- I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Information is not knowledge.
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
- It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Never lose a holy curiosity.
- No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
- The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
- There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
- When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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