I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.
~ in The World As I See It
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
~ in The World As I See It
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
God does not play dice.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
More and more I come to value charity and love of one’s fellow being above everything else . . . All our lauded technological progress—our very civilizations—is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
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.
There are two ways to look at life. One is that nothing is a miracle, and the other is that everything is a miracle.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking that created them.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
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