The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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Albert EinsteinQuoted in The New York Times (1921)
About Albert Einstein
Physicist who developed the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize. (1879-1955)
More from Albert Einstein
- I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post (1929)
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Letter to his son Eduard (1930)
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.Quoted in 'Death of a Genius', LIFE magazine (1955)
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.Letter to Carl Seelig (1952)
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Reply to the editors of Youth, quoted in The New York Times (1932)
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Mein Weltbild / The World As I See It (1931)
More quotes on learning and wisdom
- Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
- All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
- Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Marie Curie
- We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.Thomas Edison
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman
- What I cannot create, I do not understand.Richard Feynman
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