[
  { "quote": "Imagination is more important than knowledge.", "author": "Albert Einstein" },
  { "quote": "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.", "author": "Albert Einstein" },
  { "quote": "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.", "author": "Albert Einstein" },
  { "quote": "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.", "author": "Albert Einstein" },
  { "quote": "Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.", "author": "Paul Dirac" },
  { "quote": "The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.", "author": "Paul Dirac" },
  { "quote": "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.", "author": "Erwin Schrödinger" },
  { "quote": "The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived.", "author": "Erwin Schrödinger" },
  { "quote": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.", "author": "Oscar Wilde" },
  { "quote": "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.", "author": "Oscar Wilde" },
  { "quote": "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.", "author": "Oscar Wilde" },
  { "quote": "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.", "author": "Oscar Wilde" },
  { "quote": "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.", "author": "Oscar Wilde" },
  { "quote": "Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.", "author": "Honoré de Balzac" },
  { "quote": "Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.", "author": "Honoré de Balzac" },
  { "quote": "A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.", "author": "Honoré de Balzac" },
  { "quote": "There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.", "author": "Honoré de Balzac" },
  { "quote": "The smallest feline is a masterpiece.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci" },
  { "quote": "Beware the young doctor and the old barber.", "author": "Saki" },
  { "quote": "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.", "author": "Saki" },
  { "quote": "The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.", "author": "Saki" },
  { "quote": "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make.", "author": "Jules Verne" },
  { "quote": "A man is never too old to learn, and it is often the last lesson that comes hardest.", "author": "Jules Verne" },
  { "quote": "The sea is everything.", "author": "Jules Verne" },
  { "quote": "Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley" },
  { "quote": "The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley" },
  { "quote": "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley" },
  { "quote": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau" },
  { "quote": "It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau" },
  { "quote": "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau" },
  { "quote": "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau" },
  { "quote": "Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer" },
  { "quote": "A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer" },
  { "quote": "The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer" },
  { "quote": "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.", "author": "Arthur Schopenhauer" },
  { "quote": "Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.", "author": "Immanuel Kant" },
  { "quote": "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.", "author": "Immanuel Kant" },
  { "quote": "Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.", "author": "Claude Debussy" },
  { "quote": "The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz" },
  { "quote": "Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.", "author": "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz" },
  { "quote": "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein" },
  { "quote": "If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein" },
  { "quote": "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein" },
  { "quote": "Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it.", "author": "Salvador Dalí" },
  { "quote": "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.", "author": "Salvador Dalí" },
  { "quote": "Give me a museum and I'll fill it.", "author": "Pablo Picasso" },
  { "quote": "Everything you can imagine is real.", "author": "Pablo Picasso" },
  { "quote": "Action is the foundational key to all success.", "author": "Pablo Picasso" },
  { "quote": "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.", "author": "Michelangelo" },
  { "quote": "I am still learning.", "author": "Michelangelo" },
  { "quote": "A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.", "author": "Michelangelo" },
  { "quote": "If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.", "author": "Michelangelo" },
  { "quote": "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.", "author": "Raphael" },
  { "quote": "Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward.", "author": "Frédéric Chopin" },
  { "quote": "Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.", "author": "Johannes Brahms" },
  { "quote": "It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table.", "author": "Johannes Brahms" },
  { "quote": "To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.", "author": "Ludwig van Beethoven" },
  { "quote": "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.", "author": "Ludwig van Beethoven" },
  { "quote": "Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets.", "author": "Ludwig van Beethoven" },
  { "quote": "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love — that is the soul of genius.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" },
  { "quote": "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.", "author": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" },
  { "quote": "Music is the shorthand of emotion.", "author": "Robert Schumann" },
  { "quote": "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts — such is the duty of the artist.", "author": "Robert Schumann" },

  { "quote": "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius" },
  { "quote": "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius" },
  { "quote": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius" },
  { "quote": "Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius" },
  { "quote": "If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius" },
  { "quote": "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius" },

  { "quote": "The measure of a man is what he does with power.", "author": "Plato" },
  { "quote": "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.", "author": "Plato" },
  { "quote": "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.", "author": "Plato" },
  { "quote": "The beginning is the most important part of the work.", "author": "Plato" },

  { "quote": "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.", "author": "Socrates" },
  { "quote": "An unexamined life is not worth living.", "author": "Socrates" },
  { "quote": "To find yourself, think for yourself.", "author": "Socrates" },
  { "quote": "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.", "author": "Socrates" },

  { "quote": "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.", "author": "Aristotle" },
  { "quote": "The whole is more than the sum of its parts.", "author": "Aristotle" },
  { "quote": "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.", "author": "Aristotle" },
  { "quote": "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.", "author": "Aristotle" },
  { "quote": "In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.", "author": "Aristotle" },

  { "quote": "Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.", "author": "Pythagoras" },
  { "quote": "Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.", "author": "Pythagoras" },
  { "quote": "A thought is an idea in transit.", "author": "Pythagoras" },

  { "quote": "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.", "author": "Bertrand Russell" },
  { "quote": "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.", "author": "Bertrand Russell" },
  { "quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "author": "Bertrand Russell" },
  { "quote": "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.", "author": "Bertrand Russell" },
  { "quote": "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.", "author": "Bertrand Russell" },

  { "quote": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.", "author": "Richard Feynman" },
  { "quote": "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.", "author": "Richard Feynman" },
  { "quote": "Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.", "author": "Richard Feynman" },
  { "quote": "Fall in love with some activity, and do it. Nobody ever figures out what life is all about.", "author": "Richard Feynman" },

  { "quote": "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.", "author": "Werner Heisenberg" },
  { "quote": "An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.", "author": "Werner Heisenberg" },
  { "quote": "Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.", "author": "Werner Heisenberg" },

  { "quote": "Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.", "author": "Michael Faraday" },
  { "quote": "The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.", "author": "Michael Faraday" },
  { "quote": "No matter how many times a result is confirmed, it is never proven — only disproven.", "author": "Michael Faraday" },

  { "quote": "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.", "author": "Charles Dickens — A Tale of Two Cities" },
  { "quote": "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.", "author": "Charles Dickens — A Christmas Carol" },
  { "quote": "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.", "author": "Charles Dickens" },
  { "quote": "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.", "author": "Charles Dickens" },
  { "quote": "We need never be ashamed of our tears.", "author": "Charles Dickens — Great Expectations" },

  { "quote": "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.", "author": "Emily Brontë — Wuthering Heights" },
  { "quote": "I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas.", "author": "Emily Brontë — Wuthering Heights" },
  { "quote": "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.", "author": "Charlotte Brontë — Jane Eyre" },
  { "quote": "I would always rather be happy than dignified.", "author": "Charlotte Brontë — Jane Eyre" },

  { "quote": "Life can be beautiful if you are able to forget what you don't need to remember.", "author": "Guy de Maupassant" },
  { "quote": "A breath of nature is worth more than the whole of literature.", "author": "Guy de Maupassant" },
  { "quote": "One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.", "author": "Tom Wolfe" },
  { "quote": "The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.", "author": "O. Henry" },
  { "quote": "It is the unexpected that happens most often in life.", "author": "O. Henry" },

  { "quote": "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.", "author": "Robert Frost — The Road Not Taken" },
  { "quote": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", "author": "Robert Frost" },
  { "quote": "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.", "author": "Robert Frost — Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" },
  { "quote": "We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.", "author": "Robert Frost — The Secret Sits" },

  { "quote": "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.", "author": "John Keats — Endymion" },
  { "quote": "Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.", "author": "John Keats — Ode on a Grecian Urn" },
  { "quote": "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.", "author": "John Keats — Ode on a Grecian Urn" },
  { "quote": "I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years.", "author": "John Keats" },

  { "quote": "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.", "author": "Lord Byron — She Walks in Beauty" },
  { "quote": "There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore.", "author": "Lord Byron — Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" },
  { "quote": "The great object of life is sensation — to feel that we exist, even though in pain.", "author": "Lord Byron" },

  { "quote": "Rise like Lions after slumber in unvanquishable number — Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you.", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley — The Mask of Anarchy" },
  { "quote": "O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley — Ode to the West Wind" },
  { "quote": "Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley — To — " },

  { "quote": "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.", "author": "John Milton — Paradise Lost" },
  { "quote": "Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.", "author": "John Milton — Paradise Lost" },
  { "quote": "Awake, arise, or be forever fallen.", "author": "John Milton — Paradise Lost" },
  { "quote": "Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.", "author": "John Milton — Paradise Lost" },

  { "quote": "Lose yourself in the company of good books.", "author": "Charles Dickens" },
  { "quote": "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.", "author": "Charles Dickens" },
  { "quote": "A loving heart is the truest wisdom.", "author": "Charles Dickens" },

  { "quote": "Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not.", "author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" },
  { "quote": "In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.", "author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" },

  { "quote": "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.", "author": "Richard Feynman" },
  { "quote": "Observe always that everything is the result of change.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius" },
  { "quote": "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius" },

  { "quote": "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.", "author": "John Keats — To Autumn" },
  { "quote": "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.", "author": "John Keats — Ode to a Nightingale" },

  { "quote": "The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.", "author": "Plato" },
  { "quote": "Knowledge is the food of the soul.", "author": "Plato" },

  { "quote": "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.", "author": "Socrates" },
  { "quote": "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.", "author": "Socrates" },

  { "quote": "Count not the hours but enjoy every moment.", "author": "Pythagoras" },
  { "quote": "Silence is better than unmeaning words.", "author": "Pythagoras" },

  { "quote": "In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.", "author": "P. B. Medawar" },
  { "quote": "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.", "author": "Pythagoras" }
]