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Albert Einstein Quotes and Sayings (2)
Quotes by Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- Albert Einstein

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein

A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover
the greatest number of empirical facts
by logical deduction from
the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual
and no man idolized.
- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
- Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

There is no logical way to the discovery
of these elemental laws.
There is only the way of intuition,
which is helped by a feeling
for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein

Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

All these primary impulses,
not easily described in words,
are the springs of man's actions.
- Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein

It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery -
even if mixed with fear -
that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein

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

I have no special talent.
I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual,
but no one idolized.
- Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more
than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance -
but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein

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

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence,
and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -
how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches 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

It has become appallingly obvious that
our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
- Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not certain,
and as far as they are certain,
they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics.
I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein

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