Albert Einstein Quotes
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Education is not received. It is achieved.
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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
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I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.
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This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind - the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake - the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism - how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
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You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.
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The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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Imagination is the highest form of research.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
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Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
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There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.
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If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
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One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.