Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
• A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
• If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his…
• In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.
• Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning…
• The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must…
• Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none…
• How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
• The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.…
• Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
• Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered…
• The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion…
• The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.
• We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
• The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on…
• The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler
• After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are…
• Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
• Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

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