The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.
Imagination is more important than knowledge; for knowledge is limited.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Learning is experience; everything else is just information.
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Knowledge is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
It is not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Learning is not a spectator sport.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
The greatest scientists are artists as well.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
You never fail until you stop trying.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The pursuit of truth is more valuable than its possession.
Life is like a game of dominoes; once one falls, the rest follow.
It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Finding the right answer is just as important as asking the right question.