"The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices."

Einstein, Albert on imagination   

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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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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"In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts."

Einstein, Albert on imagination   

"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."

Einstein, Albert on individuality   

"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."

Einstein, Albert on influence   

"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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"We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

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

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

Einstein, Albert on intuition
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"During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief."

Einstein, Albert on knowledge
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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 words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images."

Einstein, Albert on language   

"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 ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."

Einstein, Albert on life
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"We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself."

Einstein, Albert on life   

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"Love is a better teacher than duty."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"

Einstein, Albert on love
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"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground."

Einstein, Albert on master
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"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."

Einstein, Albert on master
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"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."

Einstein, Albert on mathematics
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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on methods
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"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

Einstein, Albert on mind   

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it."

Einstein, Albert on models and modeling   

"Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count."

Einstein, Albert on money
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Einstein, Albert on music
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"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men."

Einstein, Albert on mystery
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"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"The environment is everything that isn't me."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

Einstein, Albert on nuclear age
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"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."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Einstein, Albert on opposition
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