Albert Einstein quotes - page 9

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others. (Albert Einstein)
Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity. View quote
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One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts. View quote
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Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. View quote
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The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation. View quote
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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. View quote
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. View quote
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work. View quote
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The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. View quote
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. View quote
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. (Albert Einstein)
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? View quote
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A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. View quote
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America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws. View quote
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Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets. View quote
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. View quote
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I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram! View quote
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. View quote
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Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player. View quote
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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality. View quote
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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. (Albert Einstein)
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. View quote
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. View quote
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Never memorize something that you can look up. View quote
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Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. View quote
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