Albert Einstein Quotes

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

Albert Einstein

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• Minds
• Atheist
• Little Child
• Pantheist

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• Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

  

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• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

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• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

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• I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

  

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• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

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• Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.

  

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• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

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• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

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• See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

  

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• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

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• Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.

  

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• Travel teaches as much as books.

  

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• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

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• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

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• I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

  

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• People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

  

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• I've had ups and downs, that's just the way football goes. You can't win them all. It's a matter of learning each week and taking everything in. I'm not going to make every play, I'm going to make some mistakes, but as long as I'm not making the costly ones that are going to hurt the team, I'll be all right.

  

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• I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Position
  • Minds
  • Atheist