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“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
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Albert Einstein
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“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
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Albert Einstein
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#3
“the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
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Albert Einstein
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“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
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Albert Einstein
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#5
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”
―
Albert Einstein
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#6
“I see my life in terms of music.”
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Albert Einstein
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music
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“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”
―
Albert Einstein
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#8
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
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Albert Einstein
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#9
“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
―
Albert Einstein
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dissent
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independent-thought
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science
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#10
“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”
―
Albert Einstein
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#11
“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”
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Albert Einstein
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hunger
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poverty
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#12
“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
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Albert Einstein
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#13
“At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
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Albert Einstein
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#14
“We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.”
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Albert Einstein
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feelings
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identity
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thoughts
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#15
“Force always attracts men of low morality.”
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Albert Einstein
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#16
“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
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Albert Einstein
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#17
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
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Albert Einstein
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#18
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
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Albert Einstein
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#19
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
―
Albert Einstein
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#20
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
―
Albert Einstein
tags:
einstein-book
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#21
“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.”
―
Albert Einstein
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“How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”
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Albert Einstein
tags:
einstein
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#23
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
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Albert Einstein
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analogy
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humor
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science
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#24
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
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Albert Einstein
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inspirational
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#25
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
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Albert Einstein,
The Quotable Einstein
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#26
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
―
Albert Einstein
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understanding
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#27
“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
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Albert Einstein
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#28
“We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.”
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Albert Einstein
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#29
“There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!”
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Albert Einstein
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“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.”
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Albert Einstein
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