Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Author: Albert Einstein | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will… I believe with Schopenhauer: We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must. Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act is if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.
Author: Albert Einstein | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Life & Society, Philosophy
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subject: Life & Society
It would almost appear that the very domain of human activity most crucial to the fate of nations is inescapably in the hands of wholly irresponsible political rulers. Political leaders or governments owe their power either to the use of force or to their election by the masses. They cannot be regarded as representative of the superior moral or intellectual elements in a nation.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subject: Politics & Public Policy
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Wisdom
Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate, there we enter the realm of art and of science. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelationships are not … [ Read more ]
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Art, Math & Science
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.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subject: Intelligence | Knowledge
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Perception | Observation, Psychology | Behavior
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.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
Despite his enormous contributions to science, Albert Einstein was no reclusive genius, his ever-eager conversations and correspondence engaging such diverse partners as the Indian philosopher Tagore and a young South African girl who wanted to be a scientist. In 1931, the Institute for Intellectual Cooperation invited the renowned physicist to a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas about politics and peace with a thinker of his choosing. … [ Read more ]
Authors: Albert Einstein, Maria Popova, Sigmund Freud | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (May 6, 2013) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Military | War | Peace, Psychology | Behavior, Sociology | Anthropology
A human being is part of the whole, called by us “Universe” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task … [ Read more ]
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior