10 Best Quotes from Albert Einstein

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3. “The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury — have always seemed to me contemptible.”

Einstein’s belief in the abstract was much more important than worldly pleasures. He could easily have been many times richer than he was, but that was of no interest to him; being a better person was.

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