"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.

It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage

-- to move in the opposite direction."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

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

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

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

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

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

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

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

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

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

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

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

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

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

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

"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."

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

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"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."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how
passionately I hate them!"

"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a
biological phenomenon as first love?"

"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."

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more
important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of
mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this
emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity
does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics,
know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.
Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only
difference is that there is no cat."

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a
deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems
distasteful to me for an entire year."

"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and
hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the
personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at
command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so
base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a
kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to
free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in
its beauty."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office
at Princeton)
coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mohandas Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Mohandas Gandhi

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became
the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Mohandas Gandhi

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Mohandas Gandhi

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Mohandas Gandhi

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment
limits of its compromise in practice.

Mohandas Gandhi

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Mohandas Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mohandas Gandhi

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed
and with God as witness.

Mohandas Gandhi

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Mohandas Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.

Mohandas Gandhi

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mohandas Gandhi

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere
fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Mohandas Gandhi

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but
Truth.

Mohandas Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be
well.

Mohandas Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the
blackest.

Mohandas Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mohandas Gandhi

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mohandas Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Mohandas Gandhi

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mohandas Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mohandas Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Mohandas Gandhi

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which
people live for ages and ages.

Mohandas Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in
being able to remake ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Mohandas Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Mohandas Gandhi

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Mohandas Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Mohandas Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for
confession.

Mohandas Gandhi

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.

Mohandas Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Mohandas Gandhi
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Mohandas Gandhi

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Mohandas Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas Gandhi

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Mohandas Gandhi

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Mohandas Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Mohandas Gandhi

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Mohandas Gandhi

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Mohandas Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mohandas Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mohandas Gandhi

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living ?

Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Mohandas Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mohandas Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Mohandas Gandhi

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mohandas Gandhi

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Mohandas Gandhi
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Mohandas Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mohandas Gandhi

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mohandas Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Mohandas Gandhi

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Mohandas Gandhi

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All
act and react upon one another.

Mohandas Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess
my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mohandas Gandhi

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to
admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Mohandas Gandhi

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the
moment following.

Mohandas Gandhi

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent
attribute of the soul.

Mohandas Gandhi

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in
both on as vast a scale as I could.

Mohandas Gandhi

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Mohandas Gandhi

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can
be done only by God's grace.

Mohandas Gandhi

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mohandas Gandhi

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Mohandas Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mohandas Gandhi

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Mohandas Gandhi

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mohandas Gandhi

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's
creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Mohandas Gandhi

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