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Albert Einstein on Graduation

1879–1955

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13 quotes

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

How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology?

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Moral Decay (1937)

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.

As an eminent pioneer in the realm of high frequency currents... I congratulate you on the great successes of your life's work.

Einstein's letter to Nikola Tesla for Tesla's 75th birthday (1931)

Try Not To Become a Man of Success But Rather Try To Become a Man of Value

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

Disputed

Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Misattributed

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Misattributed

Attribution

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