Einstein Quotes

Random quotes from the genius Albert Einstein...

1. A human being is a part of a whole, called by us '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 to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

3. Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

4. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

5. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.

6. I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

7. God is subtle but he is not malicious.

8. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

9. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

10. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

11. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

12. There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.

13. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen

14. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

15. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

16. 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.

17. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.

18. Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.


19. Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

20. Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.

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