"I make it a rule not to..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
More by Albert Einstein
“The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.”
“In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).”
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
More on Thinking
“Figuring out how to think about the problem.”
“Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.”
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
More on Knowledge
“It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?”
“a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
“Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself”