It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.
Albert EinsteinCheck out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.
Albert EinsteinWe know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
Albert EinsteinA large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is traditionโbesides inherited aptitudes and qualitiesโwhich makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.
Albert Einstein