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Biography - Albert Einstein:

German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. Nobel Prize in Physics (1921).
Born: 1879 - Died: 1955
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

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



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French
La valeur d'une éducation universitaire n'est pas l'apprentissage de nombreux faits, mais l'entraînement de l'esprit à penser.




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Men should strive to think much and know little.




Quotes for: fact


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What's done cannot be undone.





It is very obvious that we are not influenced by “facts” but by our interpretation of the facts.





To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.





The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.





The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.





When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: What are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.











Quotes for: to learn


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Quotes for: to learn


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





When you lose, don't lose the lesson.











Quotes for: to think


Quotes

Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.





I think, therefore I am.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.











Quotes for: education


Quotes

Quotes about education:


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.





Education is another sun to those who are educated.





The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.











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Albert Einstein also said...


Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.





The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.





A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.












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