"Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work."
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."
"If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts."
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious."
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
"The world we have created is a product of our thinking. If we want to change the world, we have to change our thinking."
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."
"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
"Love is a better teacher than duty."
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
"We all know that light travels faster than sound. That’s why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak."
"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why."
"Science is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity."
"Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another."
"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."
"You never fail until you stop trying."
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
"Three Rules of Work:
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."