Albert Einstein

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"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."	Art, Character, Creativity
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."	Honesty, Truth
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."	Love, Curiosity
"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."	Curiosity, Duty, Freedom
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."	Curiosity, Help, Life
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."	Beauty, Honesty, Life
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."	Miscellaneous
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."	Religion
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Peace
"Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life."	Love, Death
"I think and think for months and years, ninety-ninety times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."	Change, Lies, Time
"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."	Evil, Politics
"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."	Honesty, Men, Strength
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."	America, Men
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."	Determination, Persistence
"The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service."	Anti-Religion, War
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty."	Religion
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors � Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."	Science
"The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a perparation for his future career."	Attitude, Capitalism, Education
"It is the theory that decides what we can observe."	Decision-Making
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
America	Anger	Anti-God
Anti-Religion	Argument	Art
Assumptions	Attitude	Beauty
Beginnings	Birth	Books
Capitalism	Change	Character
Choice	Communism	Confidence
Conflict	Conformity	Courage
Creativity	Crime	Criticism
Curiosity	Dancing	Darkness
Death	Decision-Making	Desires
Destiny	Determination	Difficulty
Dreams	Duty	Economics
Education	Effort	Emotion
Equality	Evil	Excellence
Experience	Faith	Fate
Fear	Freedom	Genius
Glory	Goals	God
Good	Government	Happiness
Help	History	Honesty
Hope	Humor	Imagination
Insults	Intelligence	Intentions
Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Music	Nature	Opportunity
Patriotism	Peace	Persistence
Philosophy	Politics	Power
Quitting	Quotations	Reading
Religion	Responsibility	Sanity
School	Science	Sin
Sleeping	Sorrow	Strength
Stupidity	Success	Talent
Taxes	Teaching	Technology
Thinking	Time	Truth
Violence	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Worrying