Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-Albert Einstein
age
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.
-Albert Einstein
age
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
-Albert Einstein
age
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
-Albert Einstein
age
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
alone
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
-Albert Einstein
anger
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
-Albert Einstein
art
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-Albert Einstein
art
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
art
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
-Albert Einstein
attitude
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
-Albert Einstein
beauty
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
-Albert Einstein
beauty
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
-Albert Einstein
best
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
-Albert Einstein
business
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-Albert Einstein
change
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
death
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
-Albert Einstein
death
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
-Albert Einstein
education
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
-Albert Einstein
education
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-Albert Einstein
education
The environment is everything that isn't me.
-Albert Einstein
environmental
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-Albert Einstein
equality
The only source of knowledge is experience.
-Albert Einstein
experience
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
-Albert Einstein
experience
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
-Albert Einstein
experience
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
-Albert Einstein
faith
God always takes the simplest way.
-Albert Einstein
faith
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein
fear
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
fear
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
-Albert Einstein
fear
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
funny
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-Albert Einstein
funny
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein
future
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
-Albert Einstein
future
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
-Albert Einstein
god
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-Albert Einstein
god
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