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Motive Quotes by Albert Einstein
- A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
- To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so…
- I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a…
- One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from…
- Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has…
- Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.
- One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work…
- Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being…
- Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
- Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being…
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- The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt
- When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein
- One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and… — Albert Einstein
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison