Albert Einstein

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

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

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"Time is an illusion."

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"If I were not Einstein, I would like to be Gauss."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits."

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant."

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep."

"God is clever, but not dishonest."

"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself."

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

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

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

"If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, fix your attention on his deeds."

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

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

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."