I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

I rarely think in words at all.

in order to attain any definite goal it is imperative that one person should do the thinking and commanding.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s that I stay with problems longer.

Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

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.

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

that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor… This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed… and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriots – how passionately I hate them!... this bogey would have disappeared long ago had the sound sense of the peoples not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests.

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

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.