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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
― Barbara Tuchman

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
― Albert Einstein

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
― Albert Einstein

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
― Albert Einstein