Albert Einstein Quotes

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• For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
• The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
• The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to…
• Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts…
• The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be…
• It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense…
• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
• I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary…
• Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be…
• The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
• Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I…
• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals…
• Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
• But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our…
• The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it…
• Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities,…
• The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's…

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