Self-Improvement

Put your future in good hands – your own.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

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.

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The only thing that interferes with my→ learning is my education.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.

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Creativity, Imagination, Discovery

The Three Rules of Work: (1) Out of clutter find simplicity; (2) From discord find harmony; (3) In the middle of difficulty lies → opportunity.

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.

We don't need to → think   more, we need to think differently.  >>>

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.

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.

Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. → Knowledge is limited.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.  >>>

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a → solution will reveal itself.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

God does not play dice.