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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
by 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

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Quotes by Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

The faster you go, the shorter you are.
- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein

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

I want to know all Gods thoughts;
all the rest are just details.
- 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

Concern for man and his fate must always form
the chief interest of all technical endeavors.
Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
- Albert Einstein

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

God always takes the simplest way.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

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

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein

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

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- 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

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

Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- 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

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

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

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

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