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Memorable Quotes by Albert Einstein
- I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.
- I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
- ...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
- Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
- My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.
- Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
- The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
- The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest…
- I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
- We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
- True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
- Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
- Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.
- A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
- The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
- 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.
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