Albert Einstein

“God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.”

“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”

“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”

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

“You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

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

“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”

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

“Love is a better teacher than duty.”

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”

“Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”

“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”

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

“Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.”

“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”

“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”

“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”

“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.”