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


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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Le monde est davantage menacé par ceux qui tolèrent le mal que par ceux qui s'emploient à le faire.

German
Die Welt wird nicht bedroht von den Menschen, die böse sind, sondern von denen, die das Böse zulassen.




See also 

See also...



Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The main scourge of humanity is not ignorance, because the ignorant often have excuses, but the refusal to know.

Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.

Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.




Quotes for: danger


Quotes

Quotes about danger:


Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.





But where the danger is,
also grows the saving power.






The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.





Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.





The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.





It's too late to ask for advice when the danger comes.











Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.





We admire the world through what we love.











Quotes for: evil


Quotes

Quotes for: evil


One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





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





Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.





What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.





Ignorance is the mother of all evils.











Quotes

Albert Einstein also said...


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





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.





The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.












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