Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds.- Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I have only ever had one.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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 with important matters.
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.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
