"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/158/">One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/acceptance/">Acceptance</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1494/">Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/age_and_aging/">Age and Aging</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10740/">And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/destiny/">Destiny</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10909/">In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/difficulties/">Difficulties</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11893/">It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/education/">Education</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11894/">Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/education/">Education</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11895/">It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/education/">Education</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11896/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/education/">Education</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12076/">The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/effort/">Effort</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12333/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2256/">Einstein, Albert</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/endurance/">Endurance</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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