Albert Einstein famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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I never said half the crap people said I did.
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I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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What makes Facebook so great is the fact that you can make up absolutely random quotes and then attribute them to famous people.
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To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
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I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
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I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
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The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.
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The greatest scientists are artists as well.
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
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With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
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What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
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Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
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Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.
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The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
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I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.
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A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
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Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
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The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
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Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
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We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
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A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
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The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
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When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
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If you want different results, do not do the same things.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
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I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.
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The world we have created is a product of our thinking.
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
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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.
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
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