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“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein

“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
― Albert Einstein

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
― Albert Einstein

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“Information is not knowledge.”
― Albert Einstein

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ”
― Albert Einstein

“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… ”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“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.”
― Albert Einstein

“Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.”
― Albert Einstein

“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”
― Albert Einstein

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

“Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”
― Albert Einstein

“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
― Albert Einstein

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
― Albert Einstein

“Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.”
― Albert Einstein

“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.”
― Albert Einstein

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!”
― Albert Einstein

“As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?”
― John Wooden

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“E=mc2”
― Albert Einstein, The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
― 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

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
― Albert Einstein

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
― Albert Einstein

“I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”
― Albert Einstein

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
― Albert Einstein