Albert Einstein

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

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

"What matters is curiosity about life in all its aspects."

"If you wish to learn from an expert, you must first become his student."

"There's a difference between having the intelligence to win and having the wisdom to know when not to fight."

"The efforts to extract from them something profitably productive have failed."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

"I have learned from experience that the principles of success in life are more important than any knowledge I could gain."

"The only truly innovative thinking comes from people unafraid of being wrong."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive."

"I have learned from experience that the principles of success in life are more important than any knowledge I could gain."

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

"What does he know except that he knows nothing? Yet the Greeks did not do physics."

"Never lose a holy curiosity."

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

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

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

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

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

"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."

"The growth of scientific and technical civilization has not been accompanied by corresponding development in rationality, humaneness, and democratic institutions."

"Peace grows when people's basic needs are met and justice is served."

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never learned anything new."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

"Do not take the worst in mankind as the whole of mankind."