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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Related topics: Wisdom
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
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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.
- Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems,
geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
- Albert Einstein
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
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.
- Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever -
this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
- Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
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.
- Albert Einstein
God does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
God always takes the simplest way.
- Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Problems cannot be solved at the same level
of awareness that created them.
- Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
- Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing,
it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected
in a cosmic religion for the future:
It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology;
it covers both the natural and the spiritual,
and it is based on a religious sense
aspiring from the experience of all things,
natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
- Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
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.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
One may say the eternal mystery of the world
is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart,
it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
Let every man be respected as an individual
and no man idolized.
- Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- Albert Einstein
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