Saturday, August 6, 2016

QUOTES FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN (internet sourced)

 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
(My favorite quote, that strangely comes up at work a lot!)

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. (You choose!)

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. (So turn off netflix, and find a routine!)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one is idolized.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

It is the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.


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