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Albert Einstein Quotes

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Albert Einstein QuotesCollected by Mazen Basha


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Creativity

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is

limited.

I am enough o an artist to draw reely upon my imagination.

When I examine mysel and my methods o thought, I come to the

conclusion that the git o antasy has meant more to me than any

talent or abstract, positive thinking.

The true sign o intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems

rom a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks realadvance in science.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The monotony and solitude o a quiet lie stimulates the creative

mind.

It is the supreme art o the teacher to awaken joy in creative

expression and knowledge.

Einsteins quotes about himself

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Its not that Im so smart, its just that I stay with problems longer.

No amount o experimentation can ever prove me right; a single

experiment can prove me wrong.

You ask me i I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. Ive only

ever had one.

Isnt it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should

be such a popular ellow?

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others

crazy?


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Human Nature

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit o

man.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Joy in looking and comprehending is natures most beautiul git.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Weakness o attitude becomes weakness o character.

Without deep reection one knows rom daily lie that one exists

or other people.

The environment is everything that isnt me.

The value o a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what

he is able to receive.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees

results. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, o

course, powerul muscles, but no personality.

Only two things are innite, the universe and human stupidity, and

Im not sure about the ormer.

Our task must be to ree ourselves by widening our circle o

compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole o nature

and its beauty.

Solitude is painul when one is young, but delightul when one ismore mature.

Small is the number o people who see with their eyes and think

with their minds.

The dierence between stupidity and genius is that genius has its

limits.

The ear o death is the most unjustied o all ears, or theres no

risk o accident or someone whos dead.

We shall require a substantially new manner o thinking i mankind

is to survive.

We cannot despair o humanity, since we ourselves are human

beings.

Too many o us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a

cruel libel, even i it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans

themselves.

The high destiny o the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I people are good only because they ear punishment, and hope

or reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the

springs o mans actions.


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Life

A table, a chair, a bowl o ruit and a violin; what else does a manneed to be happy?

Common sense is the collection o prejudices acquired by age

eighteen.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything

new.

Education is what remains ater one has orgotten what one has

learned in school.

I live in that solitude which is painul in youth, but delicious in theyears o maturity.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;

everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and eel with their own

hearts.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it i they

cannot nd it.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner o lie is best oreveryone, best both or the body and the mind.

I do not believe in immortality o the individual, and I consider

ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman

authority behind it.

I have just got a new theory o eternity.

Only a lie lived or others is a lie worthwhile.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

There are only two ways to live your lie. One is as though nothing

is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in lie. Either we

suer in health or we suer in soul or we get at.


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Love

Any man who can drive saely while kissing a pretty girl is simply

not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Gravitation is not responsible or people alling in love.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Only a lie lived or others is a lie worthwhile.

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.

Thats relativity.

Without deep reection one knows rom daily lie that one exists

or other people.

Mathematics

Do not worry about your difculties in Mathematics. I can assure

you mine are still greater.

As ar as the laws o mathematics reer to reality, they are not

certain, and as ar as they are certain, they do not reer to reality.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry o logical ideas.

Nature

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach o exact

prediction because o the variety o actors in operation, not

because o any lack o order in nature.

Our task must be to ree ourselves by widening our circle o

compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole o nature

and its beauty.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is

comprehensible.


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Politics

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Any ool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.

It takes a touch o genius-and a lot o courage-to move in the

opposite direction.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome

nonsense that goes by the name o patriotism - how passionately I

hate them! All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be

arrived at by the principle o looking or the mathematically

simplest concepts and the link between them.

Never do anything against conscience even i the state demands it.

Nothing is more destructive o respect or the government and the

law o the land than passing laws which cannot be enorced.

One strength o the communist system o the East is that it has

some o the character o a religion and inspires the emotions o areligion.

Politics is or the present, but an equation is or eternity.

Perection o means and conusion o ends seem to characterize

our age.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been

successul and then only or a short while.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

We shall require a substantially new manner o thinking i mankindis to survive.

The release o atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has

merely made more urgent the necessity o solving an existing one.


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Relativity

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.Thats relativity.

The only reason or time is so that everything doesnt happen at

once.

To the Masters honor all must turn, each in its track, without a

sound, orever tracing Newtons ground.

The aster you go, the shorter you are.

The distinction between the past, present and uture is only a

stubbornly persistent illusion. There is no logical way to the discovery o these elemental laws.

There is only the way o intuition, which is helped by a eeling or

the order lying behind the appearance.


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Science

Concern or man and his ate must always orm the chie interest o

all technical endeavours.

Never orget this in the midst o your diagrams and equations.

I the acts dont t the theory, change the acts.

I we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be calledresearch, would it?

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting

dierent results.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has

exceeded our humanity.

It should be possible to explain the laws o physics to a barmaid.

It stands to the everlasting credit o science that by acting on the

human mind it has overcome mans insecurity beore himsel andbeore nature.

Most o the undamental ideas o science are essentially simple,

and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to

everyone.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great

scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The whole o science is nothing more than a renement o everydaythinking.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.

Science is a wonderul thing i one does not have to earn ones

living at it.

The process o scientic discovery is, in eect, a continual ight

rom wonder.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems

rom a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real

advance in science.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The most beautiul thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is

the source o all true art and science.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands o a pathological

criminal.

The grand aim o all science is to cover the greatest number o

empirical acts by logical deduction rom the smallest number o

hypotheses or axioms. All religions, arts and sciences are branches o the same tree.


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Thinking and Knowledge

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as

good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is

limited.

I dont know, I dont care, and it doesnt make any dierence!

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I never think o the uture - it comes soon enough.

I think and think or months and years. Ninety-nine times, the

conclusion is alse. The hundredth time I am right.


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A man should look or what is, and not or what he thinks should

be. Inormation is not knowledge.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives ormal education.

Keep on sowing your seed, or you never know which will

grow - perhaps it all will.

Knowledge o what is does not open the door directly to what

should be. Learn rom yesterday, live or today, hope or tomorrow. The

important thing is not to stop questioning.

Logic will get you rom A to B. Imagination will take you

everywhere.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything

better.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by todays events.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

No problem can be solved rom the same level o consciousness

that created it.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its

justication exclusively to the totality o the sense impressions

which we associate with it.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

When I examine mysel and my methods o thought, I come to the

conclusion that the git o antasy has meant more to me than anytalent or abstract, positive thinking.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

The only source o knowledge is experience.

The git o antasy has meant more to me than my talent or

absorbing positive knowledge.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, o

course, powerul muscles, but no personality.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The only thing that intereres with my learning is my education.

The true sign o intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used

when we created them.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane o

knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Reading, ater a certain age, diverts the mind too much rom its

creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his ownbrain too little alls into lazy habits o thinking.


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Truth

I you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

In matters o truth and justice, there is no dierence between largeand small problems, or issues concerning the treatment o people

are all the same.

Anyone who doesnt take truth seriously in small matters cannot be

trusted in large ones either.

Whoever undertakes to set himsel up as a judge o Truth and

Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter o the gods.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be

trusted with important matters. Unthinking respect or authority is the greatest enemy o truth.

The pursuit o truth and beauty is a sphere o activity in which we

are permitted to remain children all our lives.


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War

I am not only a pacist but a militant pacist. I am willing to ght

or peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves reuse

to go to war.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war ought

with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds o the people o the

earth will be killed. I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be ought, but

World War 4 will be ought with sticks and stones.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak o war is nothing but

an act o murder.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare or war.

Peace cannot be kept by orce; it can only be achieved by

understanding.

The pioneers o a warless world are the young men (and women)

who reuse military service.

The world is a dangerous place, not because o those who do evil,

but because o those who look on and do nothing.


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Miscelaneous Quotes

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

All such action would cease i those powerul elemental orces were

to cease stirring within us.

As ar as I vm concerned, I preer silent vice to ostentatious vir-

tue.

Anger dwells only in the bosom o ools.

Everything should be made as simple as it is, but not simpler.

I I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness o an in-

corrigible nonconormist warmly acclaimed.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Work

I A equals success, then the ormula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y

is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Only one who devotes himsel to a cause with his whole strength

and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all

o a person. People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees

results.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be o value.


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