If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. – Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. – 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
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. – Albert Einstein
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. – Albert Einstein
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. – Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish. – 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
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. – Albert Einstein
I live my daydreams in music. – 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 fully suffice. – Albert Einstein
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies…. It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. – Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. – Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. – Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
