"Study and, in general, the pursuit of..." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.”

“Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”

“When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.”

“Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.”

“The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.”

“Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.”

“Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.”

“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”

“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”