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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,803 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,760 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,349 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,595 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination
3,386 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,443 people liked it

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
1,620 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,564 people liked it

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

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"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
1,518 people liked it

"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect
1,408 people liked it

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

tags: fav
1,223 people liked it

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
1,194 people liked it

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— Albert Einstein

773 people liked it

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

703 people liked it

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

tags: funny
593 people liked it

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning."
— Albert Einstein (Relativity: The Special and the General Theory)

tags: physics, science
570 people liked it

"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

tags: music
550 people liked it

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, science, systems
498 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life
543 people liked it

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
— Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein)

tags: art, philosophy, science
468 people liked it

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

447 people liked it

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
— Albert Einstein

444 people liked it

"Never memorize something that you can look up."
— Albert Einstein

438 people liked it

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."
— Albert Einstein

287 people liked it

"God does not play dice with the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
170 people liked it

"You never fail until you stop trying."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational
197 people liked it

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
— Albert Einstein

153 people liked it

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut"
— Albert Einstein

159 people liked it

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
— Albert Einstein

tags: future
122 people liked it

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
— Albert Einstein

145 people liked it

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
— Albert Einstein

116 people liked it

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
— Albert Einstein

146 people liked it

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
— Albert Einstein

tags: cybernetics, science
95 people liked it

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, philosophy, science
91 people liked it

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
— Albert Einstein

91 people liked it

"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
81 people liked it

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
— Albert Einstein

75 people liked it

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
— Albert Einstein

67 people liked it

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. "
— Albert Einstein

49 people liked it

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reading, science
58 people liked it

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
— Albert Einstein

47 people liked it

"Dancers are the athletes of God."
— Albert Einstein

tags: albert, life
53 people liked it

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inpirational
51 people liked it

"I thought of that while riding my bicycle."
— Albert Einstein

53 people liked it

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