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Albert Einstein

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Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

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Adversity introduces a man to himself.

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05Undated

Great spirits have always encountered 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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06Undated

Never memorize something that you can look up.

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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

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08Undated

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

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09Undated

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

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Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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13Undated

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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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his 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. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

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16Undated

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

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The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

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If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

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I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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23Undated

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

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I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

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