Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

Albert Einstein

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

Albert Einstein

Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking

Albert Einstein

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Albert Einstein

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

Albert Einstein

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

Albert Einstein

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.

Albert Einstein

Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.

Albert Einstein

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

Albert Einstein

The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them

Albert Einstein

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

Albert Einstein

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

Albert Einstein

You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.

Albert Einstein

All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.

Albert Einstein

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

Albert Einstein

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

Albert Einstein

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

Albert Einstein

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

Albert Einstein

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew.

Alfred Noyes

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

Alfred Russel Wallace

I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths [...] I can see much to admire in all religions [...] But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.

Alfred Molina

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

Alfred North Whitehead

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

Alfred Jarry

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Alfred Korzybski

Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.

Alfred Korzybski

I think therefore I seem to be.

Alexander Downer

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

Alexander Downer

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

Alexander Calder

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

Alexander Cockburn

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.