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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
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Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
- Albert Einstein
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
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
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
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
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
- Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
The environment is everything that isn't me.
- Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
That deep emotional conviction of the presence
of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed
in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
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