"The ancients knew something, which we seem to……" — Albert Einstein
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
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The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the…
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to…
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America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe…
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act…
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading…
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It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful…
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,…
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
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More Ancients Quotes
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who…
— Laozi
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods,…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we…
— Herman Boerhaave
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What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
— Sun Tzu
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut…
— Arthur Eddington
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