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“Knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy, dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“If it isn't urgent, worry about it later”
― Albert Einstein, The Quotable Einstein

“be a voice not an echo”
― Albert Einstein

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
― Albert Einstein

“For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed. But until this goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“A serious-minded man enjoys a good laugh now and then.”
― Albert Einstein, The World as I See It

“In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.”
― Albert Einstein, The World as I See It

“The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“You don't have to understand the world. You just have to find your own way around in it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“For there is much truth in the saying that it is easy to give just and wise counsel—to others!—but hard to act justly and wisely for oneself.”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.”
― Albert Einstein, Querido Profesor Einstein: Correspondencia entre Albert Einstein y los Niños

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
― Albert Einstein

“America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America’s own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.”
― Albert Einstein

“For while religion prescribes brotherly love in the relations among the individuals and groups, the actual spectacle more resembles a battlefield than an orchestra. Everywhere, in economic as well as in political life, the guiding principle is one of ruthless striving for success at the expense of one's fellow. men. This competitive spirit prevails even in school and, destroying all feelings of human fraternity and cooperation, conceives of achievement not as derived from the love for productive and thoughtful work, but as springing from personal ambition and fear of rejection.”
― Albert Einstein, Religion and Science

“It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.”
― Albert Einstein

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
― Albert Einstein, The Quotable Einstein

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy”
― Albert Einstein