Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.