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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
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- 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
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
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Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Albert Einstein
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
- Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,
one must above all be a sheep oneself.
- Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth,
leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert 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.
- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
I don't know, I don't care,
and it doesn't make any difference!
- 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
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not certain,
and as far as they are certain,
they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.
Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
- Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert 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.
- 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
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
- Albert Einstein
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- 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
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is,
in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
- 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
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
- 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 only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
One strength of the communist system of the East
is that it has some of the character of a religion
and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- Albert Einstein
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes
the objects of his creation
and is but a reflection of human frailty.
- Albert Einstein
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