Albert Einstein

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

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

"It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom."

"If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."

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

"Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation."

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

"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."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

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

"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"

"It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."