Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
• Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
• Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
• Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
• Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
• Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
• If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
• In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
• Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
• Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.
• Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
• It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
• I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example…
• The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more…
• The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to…

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