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From Quotes by Albert Einstein
- When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we…
- My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could…
- I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of…
- I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.…
- Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
- It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's…
- Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
- A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during…
- We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those…
- I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic…
- Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
- A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts,…
- It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.
- Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
- There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on…
- Play is the highest from of research.
- A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The…
- I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do…
- From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.
- I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from the multitude of…
- To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at…
- I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind,…
- The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in…
- Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
- The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
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