“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ”
―
Albert Einstein
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
―
Albert Einstein
“It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.”
―
Albert Einstein
“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.”
―
Albert Einstein
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events”
―
Albert Einstein
“Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.”
―
Albert Einstein
“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
―
Albert Einstein
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
―
Albert Einstein
“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”
―
Albert Einstein
