Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

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

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."

"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

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

"One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

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

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

"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

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

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

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

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