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Own Quotes by Albert Einstein
- I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters…
- The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
- Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
- If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for…
- Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
- Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.
- As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a…
- I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the…
- Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
- I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
- Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?…
- I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his…
- 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…
- If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
- Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
- 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.…
- This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
- The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's…
- I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person…
- Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only…
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