"Truth is what stands the test of..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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“If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.”
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”
“Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.”
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“The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.”
“Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.”
“Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.”
More on Experience
“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
“Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.”