Quotes by Albert Einstein

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  • The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
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  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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  • Never underestimate your own ignorance.
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  • There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
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  • 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.
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  • The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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  • Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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  • Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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  • The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
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  • Imagination is more important than knowledge...
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  • Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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  • The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
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  • If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew.
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  • 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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  • The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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  • If A is 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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  • Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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  • When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
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  • If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
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  • Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
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  • Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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  • Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
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  • Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
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  • People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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  • It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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  • Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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  • To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
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  • Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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  • A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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  • I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
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