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    Albert Einstein
    “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, respect
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Time is an illusion.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: relativity, time
    1975 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, skepticism
    1629 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Nothing happens until something moves.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inertia, physics, universe
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    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
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    Albert Einstein
    “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational, self-improvement, self-knowledge
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    Albert Einstein
    “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adolescence, attributed, attributed-no-source, prejudice
    676 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed, attributed-to-einstein-no-source, buddhism, religion, science, unsourced
    720 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

    (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: disagreement, dissent, equanimity, expressing, knowledge, opinions, prejudices, social, society, thought
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    Albert Einstein
    “Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: freedom, tolerance
    503 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: live-in-the-moment, paradox
    597 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source
    481 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Information is not knowledge.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: information, knowledge
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    Albert Einstein
    “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    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
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    Albert Einstein
    “A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, independent-thought, science
    280 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Play is the highest form of research.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: childhood, education
    386 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humanity, science
    209 likes

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  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #28
    “All generalizations are false, including this one.”
    ― Unknown - attributed to Mark Twain by Normand Baillargeon
    tags: paradox
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    Albert Einstein
    “How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein
    177 likes

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



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