Nice Quotes #32: Albert Einstein

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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein


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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

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?

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Einstein was truly brilliant. it is said he did not remember his own phone number. when asked why, he said "I never call myself - why would I have it?"