Albert Einstein Quotes

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
-Albert Einstein

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"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
-Albert Einstein

Success comes to those that have failed enough.

"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause as best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."
-Albert Einstein

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“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
- Albert Einstein

Keep it simple, and you will rule the world.

"Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster."
-Albert Einstein

Nature doesn't need our understanding, as much as it needs our respect.

"When you are courting a nice girl and hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein

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"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
-Albert Einstein

An occasional bad attitude is human nature. Making a habit of it is becomes a character trait. The decision is yours. And mine.

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"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." 
-Albert Einstein

Could God have just sat quietly "unto himself," or is part of the job of being God creating the world, and the humans that inhabit it?

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"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value"
-Albert Einstein

Success takes, value gives.  

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."
-Albert Einstein

Man was made in God's image, not He in ours. That we so utterly fail to live up that image is no reflection on God. 

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