The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Knowledge   
Imagination   
Intelligence   
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Creativity   
Teaching   
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Subject:
Life   
Health   
Spiritual   
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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance.
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
Endings   
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Subject:
Curiosity   
Talent   
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Belief   
Opinions   
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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
Thinking   
Mortality   
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Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Subject:
Intellect   
Character   
Science   
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Belief   
Conflict   
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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Subject:
Advice   
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Subject:
Ability   
Fool   
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Subject:
Confusion   
Age   
Perfection   
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Subject:
Technology   
Nature   
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Subject:
Creativity   
Loneliness   
Mind   
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Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Subject:
Happiness   
Science   
Sensible   
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Subject:
Discovery   
Science   
Honor   
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
Subject:
Curiosity   
Talent   
Idea   
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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Subject:
Technology   
Science   
Nature   
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Subject:
Beauty   
Truth   
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Subject:
Truth   
Trust   
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