Quotes
Quotes
Lines worth keeping — a quiet shelf to return to.
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“To perceive is to suffer”
— Einstein
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all”
— Einstein
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit”
— Einstein
“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind”
— Einstein
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead”
— Einstein
“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
— Einstein
“Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.”
— Einstein
“The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.”
— Einstein
“I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...”
— Einstein
“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering”
— Einstein
“We sleep 1/3 of our lives away.”
— Einstein
“I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it”
— Einstein
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
— Einstein
“You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.”
— Einstein
“Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.”
— Einstein
“I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that don't work”
— Einstein
“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
— Einstein
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life”
— Einstein
“Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it”
— Einstein
“I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”
— Einstein
“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.”
— Einstein
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed”
— Einstein
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
— Einstein
“Tôi không bao giờ dạy học sinh của mình, tôi chỉ cố gắng cung cấp các điều kiện mà chúng có thể học.”
— Einstein
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
— Einstein
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
— Einstein
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
— Einstein
“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
— Einstein
“Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry”
— Einstein
“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.”
— Einstein
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
— Einstein
“Information is not knowledge.”
— Einstein
“I see my life in terms of music”
— Einstein
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else”
— Einstein
“Force always attracts men of low morality”
— Einstein
“the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
— Einstein
“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”
— Einstein
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”
— Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge”
— Einstein
“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas”
— Einstein
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution”
— Einstein
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”
— Einstein
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”
— Einstein
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
— Einstein
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives”
— Einstein
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
— Einstein
“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.”
— Einstein
“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”
— Einstein
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
— Einstein
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
— Einstein
“I love Humanity but I hate humans”
— Einstein
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions”
— Einstein
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
— Einstein
“I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details”
— Einstein
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible”
— Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen”
— Einstein
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
— Einstein
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax”
— Einstein
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things”
— Einstein
“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”
— Einstein
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
— Einstein
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice”
— Einstein
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created”
— Einstein
“Imagination is the highest form of research.”
— Einstein
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Einstein
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
— Einstein
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
— Einstein
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible”
— Einstein
“A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for”
— Einstein
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them”
— Einstein
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character”
— Einstein
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
— Einstein
“God does not play dice with the universe”
— Einstein
“Nothing happens until something moves”
— Einstein
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile”
— Einstein
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
— Einstein
“Time is an illusion”
— Einstein
“God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God”
— Einstein
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right”
— Einstein
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
— Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing”
— Einstein
“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”
— Einstein
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
— Einstein
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts”
— Einstein
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions”
— Einstein
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
— Einstein
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
— Einstein
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
— Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
— Einstein
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”
— Einstein
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right”
— Einstein
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again”
— Einstein
“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”
— Einstein
“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.”
— Einstein
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
— Einstein
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
— Einstein
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
— Einstein
“Creativity is intelligence having fun”
— Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
— Einstein
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
— Einstein
“You never fail until you stop trying”
— Einstein
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
— Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds”
— Einstein
“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.”
— Einstein
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning”
— Einstein
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school”
— Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
— Einstein
“Never memorize something that you can look up”
— Einstein
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
— Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind”
— Einstein
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it”
— Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
— 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”
— Einstein
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university”
— Einstein
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid”
— Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new”
— Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”
— Einstein
“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits”
— Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value”
— Einstein
“When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.”
— Einstein
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
— Einstein
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere”
— Einstein
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself”
— Einstein
“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”
— Einstein
“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”
— Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
— Einstein