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Best Sense Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven…
- What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means…
- Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
- To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us…
- My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human…
- I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will…
- My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
- It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense…
- I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals…
- 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…
- A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is…
- It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry;…
- It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense…
- Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective…
- Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends.…
- One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
- Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.
- The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. .. Communities tend to be guided…
- Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.
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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden