Albert Einstein Quotes

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• The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
• Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all…
• The state was made for man, not man for state.
• The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.
• If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more…
• Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
• There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of…
• Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all…
• I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the…
• There are two important things for full success in life: 1. Don´t tell everything you know.
• Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.
• The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
• The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
• Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.…
• I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
• One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
• Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I…
• A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is…

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