"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."
— Albert Einstein

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

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

"Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"
— Albert Einstein

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

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

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."
— Albert Einstein

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
— Albert Einstein

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
— Albert Einstein

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
— Marlene Dietrich

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

"'Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'
'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'"
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."
— Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

"Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next."
— Dean Koontz (Fear Nothing)

"For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die."
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself."
— John Green

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
— Douglas Adams

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
— Albert Camus

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
— Albert Einstein

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
— Albert Einstein

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"When in doubt, look intelligent."
— Garrison Keillor

"Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager."
— Susan Sontag

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
— Walt Disney Company

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)