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Intellectual growth should commence at birth
by Albert Einstein

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

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Quotes by Albert Einstein

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein

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.
- Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
- Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein

Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein

Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein

Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein

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.
- Albert Einstein

The faster you go, the shorter you are.
- Albert Einstein

You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein

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

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- 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 was the experience of mystery -
even if mixed with fear -
that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein

One may say the eternal mystery of the world
is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- Albert Einstein

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

The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein

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

It's not that I'm so smart,
it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

God always takes the simplest way.
- 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

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

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

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein

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

I do not believe in the God of theology
who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein

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

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