Inspirational famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
-- Albert Einstein -
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
-- Albert Einstein -
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein -
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
-- Albert Einstein -
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it
-- Albert Einstein -
The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
-- Albert Einstein -
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-- Albert Einstein -
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
-- Albert Einstein -
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
-- Albert Einstein -
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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 -
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-- Albert Einstein -
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
-- Albert Einstein -
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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
-- Albert Einstein -
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
-- Albert Einstein -
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
-- Albert Einstein -
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
-- Albert Einstein -
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
-- Albert Einstein -
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein -
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
-- Albert Einstein -
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
-- Albert Einstein -
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein -
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
-- Albert Einstein -
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
-- Albert Einstein -
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
-- Albert Einstein -
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.
-- Albert Einstein -
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
-- Albert Einstein -
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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
-- Albert Einstein -
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
-- 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 -
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
-- Albert Einstein -
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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
-- Albert Einstein -
Never memorize something that you can look up.
-- Albert Einstein -
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
-- Albert Einstein -
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
-- Albert Einstein -
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein -
If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.
-- Albert Einstein -
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-- Albert Einstein -
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
-- Albert Einstein -
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
-- Albert Einstein -
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
-- Albert Einstein -
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
-- Albert Einstein -
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The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.
-- Albert Einstein -
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
-- Albert Einstein -
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
-- Albert Einstein -
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
-- Albert Einstein -
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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 -
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
-- Albert Einstein -
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
-- Albert Einstein -
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
-- Albert Einstein -
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
-- Albert Einstein -
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein -
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein -
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
-- Albert Einstein -
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
-- Albert Einstein -
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein -
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
-- Albert Ellis -
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
-- Albert Ellis -
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
-- Albert Ellis -
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The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.
-- Albert J. Nock -
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-- Albert Pike -
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Life happened because I turned the pages.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley -
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
-- Aldous Huxley -
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
-- Aleister Crowley -
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -