Albert Einstein
Quotations
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“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.” -Albert Einstein
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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” -Albert Einstein
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“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” -Albert Einstein
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -Albert Einstein
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“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.” -Albert Einstein
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” -Albert Einstein
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“Love is a better teacher than duty.” -Albert Einstein
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“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” -Albert Einstein
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“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.” -Albert Einstein
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“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” -Albert Einstein
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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.” -Albert Einstein
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“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” -Albert Einstein
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“It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.” -Albert Einstein
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“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” -Albert Einstein
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“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” -Albert Einstein
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“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.” -Albert Einstein
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“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” -Albert Einstein
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“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.” -Albert Einstein
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“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!” -Albert Einstein
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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.” -Albert Einstein
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“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.” -Albert Einstein
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“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” -Albert Einstein
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“Force always attracts men of low morality.” -Albert Einstein
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“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.” -Albert Einstein
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“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” -Albert Einstein
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” -Albert Einstein
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“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.” -Albert Einstein
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“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” -Albert Einstein
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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.” -Albert Einstein
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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?” -Albert Einstein
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“You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.” -Albert Einstein
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“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” -Albert Einstein
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“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.” -Albert Einstein
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“God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.” -Albert Einstein
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“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” -Albert Einstein
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“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” -Albert Einstein
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“It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.” -Albert Einstein
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“It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.” -Albert Einstein
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“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” -Albert Einstein
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“The environment is everything that isn’t me.” -Albert Einstein
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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” -Albert Einstein
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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” -Albert Einstein
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“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” -Albert Einstein
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“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” -Albert Einstein
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“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.” -Albert Einstein
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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.” -Albert Einstein
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“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” -Albert Einstein
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“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” -Albert Einstein
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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” -Albert Einstein
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“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” -Albert Einstein
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein
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