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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
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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
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- 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
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- 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
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
- 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
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- 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
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
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- 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
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
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- 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
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted
does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
- 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
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- 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 distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever -
this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Albert Einstein
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- 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
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- 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
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
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