A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Albert Einstein A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. Albert Einstein A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Albert Einstein A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Albert Einstein All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Albert Einstein All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. Albert Einstein All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. Albert Einstein An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Albert Einstein Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Albert Einstein Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. Albert Einstein Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. Albert Einstein Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. Albert Einstein Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. Albert Einstein Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Force always attracts men of low morality. Albert Einstein God always takes the simplest way. Albert Einstein God does not play dice. Albert Einstein God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. Albert Einstein Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes

are closed. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! Albert Einstein Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Albert Einstein I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. Albert Einstein I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. Albert Einstein I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. Albert Einstein I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. Albert Einstein I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. Albert Einstein I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb.

Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. Albert Einstein I have just got a new theory of eternity. Albert Einstein I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. Albert Einstein I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. Albert Einstein I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details. Albert Einstein If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. Albert Einstein If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. Albert Einstein Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular

fellow? Albert Einstein It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. Albert Einstein It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. Albert Einstein It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein It is only to the individual that a soul is given. Albert Einstein It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. Albert Einstein It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. Albert Einstein Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Albert Einstein Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. Albert Einstein Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. Albert Einstein Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. Albert Einstein Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein

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. Albert Einstein Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein Never lose a holy curiosity. Albert Einstein No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Albert Einstein One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Albert Einstein Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. Albert Einstein Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. Albert Einstein Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. Albert Einstein Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. Albert Einstein Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Albert Einstein That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Albert Einstein The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. Albert Einstein The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein The environment is everything that isn't me. Albert Einstein The faster you go, the shorter you are. Albert Einstein The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. Albert Einstein The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. Albert Einstein The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Albert Einstein The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. Albert Einstein The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Albert Einstein The man of science is a poor philosopher. Albert Einstein The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. Albert Einstein The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Albert Einstein The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Albert Einstein The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. Albert Einstein The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Albert Einstein The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. Albert Einstein The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Albert Einstein There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. Albert Einstein To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Albert Einstein To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert Einstein True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. Albert Einstein We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Albert Einstein We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein 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. Albert Einstein When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. Albert Einstein You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. Albert Einstein You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Albert Einstein You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Albert Einstein

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. Abraham Lincoln All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. Abraham Lincoln All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Abraham Lincoln Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Abraham Lincoln Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Abraham Lincoln As our case is new, we must think and act anew. Abraham Lincoln Avoid popularity if you would have peace. Abraham Lincoln Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. Abraham Lincoln Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Abraham Lincoln Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Abraham Lincoln Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. Abraham Lincoln Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. Abraham Lincoln Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. Abraham Lincoln Everybody likes a compliment. Abraham Lincoln Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln God must love the common man, he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. Abraham Lincoln He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make. Abraham Lincoln Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. Abraham Lincoln I can make more generals, but horses cost money. Abraham Lincoln I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. Abraham Lincoln I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. Abraham Lincoln I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. Abraham Lincoln I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. Abraham Lincoln I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Abraham Lincoln I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. Abraham Lincoln I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. Abraham Lincoln I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax. Abraham Lincoln If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Abraham Lincoln If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. Abraham Lincoln If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. Abraham Lincoln If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. Abraham Lincoln Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln Knavery and flattery are blood relations. Abraham Lincoln Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. Abraham Lincoln Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Abraham Lincoln No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. Abraham Lincoln No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Abraham Lincoln