116 quotes by Albert Einstein

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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Cooperation

4.4 · 38 votes

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

Mistakes

4.2 · 63 votes

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According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Education

4.8 · 37 votes · 123 reads

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Change

4.3 · 32 votes · 116 reads

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Humankind

4.1 · 22 votes

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Thought and Reason
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
4.7 · 43 votes · 102 reads
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Nature
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
4.5 · 43 votes · 135 reads
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Government and Politics
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
4.2 · 28 votes · 137 reads
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Time
And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
4.0 · 27 votes · 159 reads
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Thought and Reason
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
4.8 · 34 votes · 166 reads
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Thought and Reason
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.
4.7 · 21 votes · 97 reads
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Various
At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
4.4 · 54 votes · 137 reads
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Nature
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
3.8 · 35 votes · 84 reads
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Virtues
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
3.5 · 49 votes · 93 reads
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Nature
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
3.3 · 62 votes · 102 reads
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Virtues
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
3.3 · 37 votes · 92 reads
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Various
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
4.9 · 17 votes · 186 reads
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Society
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
4.5 · 22 votes · 181 reads
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Art and Culture
Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
3.6 · 38 votes · 10 reads
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Society
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.
4.0 · 22 votes · 154 reads
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Virtues
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
3.6 · 41 votes · 30 reads
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Feelings
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
4.7 · 7 votes · 100 reads
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Thought and Reason
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.
5.0 · 54 votes · 30 reads
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Virtues
God always takes the simplest way.
4.2 · 63 votes · 131 reads
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Society
God does not play dice with the universe.
3.3 · 16 votes · 32 reads
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Society
God is clever, but not dishonest.
3.0 · 14 votes · 126 reads
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Society
God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
4.2 · 42 votes · 74 reads
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Nature
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
4.1 · 20 votes · 55 reads
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Society
How do I work? I grope.
4.9 · 38 votes · 24 reads
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Society
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
4.7 · 52 votes · 138 reads
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Various
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
4.4 · 60 votes · 63 reads
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Government and Politics
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
3.8 · 52 votes · 13 reads
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Virtues
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
4.2 · 49 votes · 115 reads
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Virtues
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
4.8 · 37 votes · 24 reads
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Time
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
4.3 · 5 votes · 3 reads
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Virtues
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
3.9 · 39 votes · 52 reads
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Society
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
4.1 · 55 votes · 112 reads
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Various
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
4.5 · 32 votes · 182 reads
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Thought and Reason
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
3.7 · 31 votes · 115 reads
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Virtues
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
3.0 · 27 votes · 24 reads
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Virtues
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
3.4 · 50 votes · 62 reads
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Government and Politics
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
4.2 · 42 votes · 42 reads
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Various
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
4.8 · 29 votes · 119 reads
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Virtues
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
3.4 · 5 votes · 127 reads
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Thought and Reason
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
4.4 · 46 votes · 75 reads
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