Quotes by Einstein, Albert

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"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."

Einstein, Albert on success
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"We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race."

Einstein, Albert on action   

"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions."

Einstein, Albert on action
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"Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions."

Einstein, Albert on action   

"But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts."

Einstein, Albert on action   

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

Einstein, Albert on action   

"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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"Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us."

Einstein, Albert on behavior   

"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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"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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"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind."

Einstein, Albert on change
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"Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation."

Einstein, Albert on survival
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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

Einstein, Albert on taxes and taxation
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"The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?"

Einstein, Albert on teacher   

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on teacher
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"Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal."

Einstein, Albert on technology
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"It is theory that decides what can be observed."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"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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"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."

Einstein, Albert on truth   

"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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"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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"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

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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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Einstein, Albert on understanding
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"This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion."

Einstein, Albert on uniqueness   

"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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"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."

Einstein, Albert on value
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet"

Einstein, Albert on vegetarianism
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"An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere."

Einstein, Albert on visualization
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"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service."

Einstein, Albert on war
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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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"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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"How do I work? I grope."

Einstein, Albert on work
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"I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds."

Einstein, Albert on world   

"To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self."

Einstein, Albert on world
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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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