"Common sense is that layer of prejudices which……" — Albert Einstein

"Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen."

— 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…
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to…
America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe…
I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act…
Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading…
It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful…
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,…
Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

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