Albert Einstein Quotes
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions, and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.
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If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
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Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
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That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics.
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.