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Disputed quotes — Albert Einstein

1879–1955

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15 quotes

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

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Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity.

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

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Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen.

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If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

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Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.

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The really valuable thing is intuition.

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Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

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

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In December, 1947, he made the following statement: "I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my life."

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Fairy tales and more fairy tales. [in response to a mother who wanted her son to become a scientist and asked Einstein what reading material to give him]

Disputed Found in Montana Libraries: Volumes 8-14 (1954)

Fairy tales and more fairy tales.

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We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them

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The religion of future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description... If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.

Disputed The Buddha in the Eyes of Eminent Scholars (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Einstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.