German-American Quotes
99 quotes in this collection
"The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
-- Albert Einstein"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
-- Albert Einstein"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
-- Albert Einstein"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
-- Albert Einstein"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
-- Albert Einstein"Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure."
-- Albert Einstein"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
-- Albert Einstein"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
-- Albert Einstein"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein"If people are good only because they are afraid of punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-- Albert Einstein"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being."
-- Albert Einstein"He who marches rank and file to music at which his heart beats no faster is a fool."
-- Albert Einstein
