Albert Einstein Quotes
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Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
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How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
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Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
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Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women, who refuse military service.
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I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.
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The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
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The legs are the wheels of creativity.
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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What I particularly admire in him is the firm stand he has taken, not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives very clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.