"To see with one's own eyes, to..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?
More by Albert Einstein
“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”
“I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!”
“Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.”
More on Individuality
“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”
“When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.”
“In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.”