Albert Einstein Declared Retarded
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert EinsteinWisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it.
Albert EinsteinI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinNothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
Albert EinsteinThe search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Albert EinsteinA finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert EinsteinMy intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
Albert EinsteinAnger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert EinsteinTo punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert EinsteinNothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
Albert EinsteinIt is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein"My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert EinsteinThe devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert EinsteinAll that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert EinsteinI want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
Albert EinsteinIt is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert EinsteinWe cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert EinsteinIf there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.
Albert EinsteinHe who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert EinsteinDuring the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by kn owledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for t he people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
Albert Einstein