Born: 14 March 1879, Ulm, Germany
Died: 18 April 1955, New Jersey, United States
- Albert Einstein
2.Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
3.Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
4.There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
5.If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
- Albert Einstein
6.I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
7.I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
- Albert Einstein
8.If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein
9.When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
10.A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Albert Einstein
11.Never memorize something that you can look up.
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12.Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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13.If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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14.Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
15.Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
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16.The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
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17.I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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18.Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
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19.I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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20.Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
- Albert Einstein
21.If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
- Albert Einstein
22.The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
- Albert Einstein
23.You never fail until you stop trying.
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24.The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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25.Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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26.Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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27.Creativity is intelligence having fun.
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28.It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
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29.If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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30.The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
31.Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
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32.The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
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33.When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
- Albert Einstein
34.Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Albert Einstein
35.Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
36.What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
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37.Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
38.In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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39.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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40.I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
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41.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 symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
- Albert Einstein
42.Love is a better master than duty.
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43.Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
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44.I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
- Albert Einstein
45.Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein
46.We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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47.The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
48.The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
- Albert Einstein
49.Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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50.Out of clutter, find simplicity.
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51.Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.
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52.Nothing happens until something moves.
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53.We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
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54.If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
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55.I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
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56.Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
- Albert Einstein
57.Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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58.Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
59.Imagination is the highest form of research.
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60.However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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61.Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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62.God does not play dice with the universe.
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63.I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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64.The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
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65.Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
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66.I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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67.The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
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68.You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
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69.Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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70.What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
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71.Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
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72.Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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73.It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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74.Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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75.A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
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76.The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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77.If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.
- Albert Einstein
78.You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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79.If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
80.Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
- Albert Einstein
81.If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
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82.My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
83.Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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84.Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
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85.When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
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86.I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
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87.I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
- Albert Einstein
88.If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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89.The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
90.The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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91.The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution.!
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92.It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
93.Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein
94.When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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95.The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
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96.Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
- Albert Einstein
97.I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.
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98.The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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99.Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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100.A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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101.The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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102.One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein
103.We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.
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104.We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
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105.The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
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106.Information is not knowledge.
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107.If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
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108.Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
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109.No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
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110.Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots.
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111.I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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112.All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
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113.God is subtle but he is not malicious.
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114.Play is the highest form of research.
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115.The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
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116.The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
- Albert Einstein
117.Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.
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118.You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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119.the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats.
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120.A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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121.Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
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122.As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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123.Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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124.It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
125.The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
- Albert Einstein
126.A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein
127.I thought of that while riding my bicycle.
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128.I see my life in terms of music.
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129.The only source of knowledge is experience.
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130.Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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131.Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.
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132.It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
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133.At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.
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134.We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
- Albert Einstein
135.An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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136.Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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137.Force always attracts men of low morality.
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138.Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
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139.What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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140.The human spirit must prevail over technology.
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141.Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.
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142.Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
- Albert Einstein
143.No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
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144.Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.
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145.Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
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146.Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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147.It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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148.Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
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149.Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
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150.How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
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