The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
