"I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
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“If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.”
“The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap”
“The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.”
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“Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.”
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“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
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“A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.”
“For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.”
“Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.”