"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

Einstein, Albert on thoughts and thinking
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"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!"

Einstein, Albert on time
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on teacher
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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."

Einstein, Albert on change
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"Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth."

Einstein, Albert on change
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"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."

Einstein, Albert on morality
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"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."

Einstein, Albert on spirituality
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"God always takes the simplest way."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying."

Burford, Frank on failure
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"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

Coolidge, Calvin on knowledge
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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."

Ellis, Havelock on ecology
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"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

Einstein, Albert on death
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity."

Einstein, Albert on curiosity
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"The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."

Einstein, Albert on courage
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"The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."

Einstein, Albert on class
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"To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self."

Einstein, Albert on world
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"One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."

Einstein, Albert on weather
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"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

Einstein, Albert on value
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Einstein, Albert on understanding
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"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Einstein, Albert on research
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"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."

Einstein, Albert on relativity
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

Einstein, Albert on intuition
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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery."

Einstein, Albert on instinct
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"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."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Einstein, Albert on art
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"Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Einstein, Albert on gratitude
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"To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."

Einstein, Albert on faith
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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

King Jr. Martin Luther on progress
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"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based 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. "

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"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

Einstein, Albert on knowledge
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"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."

Einstein, Albert on learning
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"The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working."

Einstein, Albert on praise
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"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind"

Einstein, Albert on possessions
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