Albert Einstein

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

"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."

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

"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

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

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

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."

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

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience."

"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"God always takes the simplest way."

"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."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

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

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means."

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

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

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

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations."

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

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

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."