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Experience Quotes by Albert Einstein
- The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.
- It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
- It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to…
- [Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means…
- Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
- The only source of knowledge is experience.
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
- Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
- It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding…
- Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind…
- Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
- The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the…
- I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- 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 religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural…
- Experience alone can decide on truth.
- For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong…
- In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
- 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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
- Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to…
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- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila