Albert Einstein Quotes About Knowledge
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Information is not knowledge.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
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Knowledge is limited.
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.
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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.
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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.
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Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
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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.
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I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist