A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. This was on a sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton, which is often quoted as a statement by him; research should be able to reveal whether or not it originated with Einstein.
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy. On the Golden ratio. Letter sent to Le Corbusier (1946).
