Albert Einstein Quotes About Life
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
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You never fail until you stop trying.
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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today.
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.
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Creativity is intelligence having fun.
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You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist