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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Imagination
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Knowledge
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Wisdom
"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
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Men
"Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it."
Art
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Effort
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Knowledge
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
Curiosity
"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
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
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Death
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Intelligence
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Excellence
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Violence
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
Miscellaneous
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Men
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Stupidity
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Men
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Technology
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Determination
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Persistence
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Miscellaneous
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Life
"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."
Knowledge
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Learning
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Wisdom
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
Age
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Courage
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school."
Education
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Learning
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School
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
Knowledge
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Nature
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Wisdom
"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
Age
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Education
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Knowledge
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Age
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
Miscellaneous
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