m-ric/english_historical_quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.	Albert Einstein	[ "peace", "war" ]
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.	Albert Einstein	[ "anger" ]
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.	Albert Einstein	[ "alone" ]
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.	Albert Einstein	[ "science" ]
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.	Albert Einstein	[ "life" ]
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.	Albert Einstein	[ "nature", "science" ]
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.	Albert Einstein	[ "time" ]
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.	Albert Einstein	[ "truth" ]
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.	Albert Einstein	[ "education", "learning" ]
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.	Albert Einstein	[ "fear", "good", "hope" ]
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.	Albert Einstein	[ "war" ]
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.	Albert Einstein	[ "god", "good" ]
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.	Albert Einstein	[ "knowledge" ]
Information is not knowledge.	Albert Einstein	[ "intelligence", "knowledge" ]
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.	Albert Einstein	[ "god", "religion" ]
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.	Albert Einstein	[ "god" ]
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.	Albert Einstein	[ "knowledge", "time" ]
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.	Albert Einstein	[ "time" ]
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.	Albert Einstein	[ "science" ]
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.	Albert Einstein	[ "nature" ]
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.	Albert Einstein	[ "death" ]
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.	Albert Einstein	[ "great" ]
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.	Albert Einstein	[ "intelligence" ]
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.	Albert Einstein	[ "science" ]
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.	Albert Einstein	[ "good" ]
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.	Albert Einstein	[ "great" ]
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.	Albert Einstein	[ "god", "imagination" ]
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.	Albert Einstein	[ "great" ]
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.	Albert Einstein	[ "intelligence" ]
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.	Albert Einstein	[ "knowledge", "truth" ]
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.	Albert Einstein	[ "technology" ]
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.	Albert Einstein	[ "imagination", "intelligence", "knowledge" ]
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.	Albert Einstein	[ "attitude" ]
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.	Albert Einstein	[ "age" ]
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.	Albert Einstein	[ "war" ]
Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding.	Albert Einstein	[ "peace" ]
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.	Albert Einstein	[ "god" ]
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.	Albert Einstein	[ "science" ]
True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.	Albert Einstein	[ "religion" ]
Force always attracts men of low morality.	Albert Einstein	[ "men" ]
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.	Albert Einstein	[ "great" ]
God always takes the simplest way.	Albert Einstein	[ "faith", "god" ]
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.	Albert Einstein	[ "nature" ]
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.	Albert Einstein	[ "religion", "science" ]
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.	Albert Einstein	[ "love" ]
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.	Albert Einstein	[ "success" ]
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.	Albert Einstein	[ "art" ]
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.	Albert Einstein	[ "nature" ]
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.	Albert Einstein	[ "faith", "god", "power" ]
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.	Albert Einstein	[ "respect" ]
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.	Albert Einstein	[ "politics" ]
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.	Albert Einstein	[ "beauty", "nature" ]
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.	Albert Einstein	[ "success" ]
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.	Albert Einstein	[ "wisdom" ]
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.	Albert Einstein	[ "war" ]
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.	Albert Einstein	[ "education", "learning" ]
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.	Albert Einstein	[ "religion", "strength" ]
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.	Albert Einstein	[ "imagination", "science" ]
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.	Albert Einstein	[ "age" ]
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.	Albert Einstein	[ "god", "intelligence" ]
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.	Albert Einstein	[ "science" ]
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.	Albert Einstein	[ "love" ]
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.	Albert Einstein	[ "life" ]
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.	Albert Einstein	[ "poetry" ]
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.	Albert Einstein	[ "motivational" ]
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.	Albert Einstein	[ "good" ]
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.	Albert Einstein	[ "strength" ]
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.	Albert Einstein	[ "age" ]
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.	Albert Ellis	[ "future" ]
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.	Albert Ellis	[ "best", "future", "life" ]
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.	Albert Ellis	[ "change" ]
I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.	Albert Ellis	[ "work" ]
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.	Albert Ellis	[ "religion" ]
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.	Albert Ellis	[ "art", "love" ]
I hope to die in the saddle seat.	Albert Ellis	[ "hope" ]
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.	Albert Ellis	[ "change" ]
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.	Albert Ellis	[ "love" ]
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.	Albert Ellis	[ "work" ]
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.	Albert Ellis	[ "war" ]
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.	Albert Ellis	[ "dating" ]
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.	Albert Ellis	[ "men", "women" ]
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.	Albert Ellis	[ "age", "fear", "women" ]
When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.	Albert Finney	[ "romantic" ]
Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.	Albert Finney	[ "amazing" ]
My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.	Albert Finney	[ "dad" ]
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.	Albert Finney	[ "sad" ]
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.	Albert Pike	[ "truth" ]
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.	Albert Pike	[ "learning", "truth" ]
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.	Albert Pike	[ "alone", "death" ]
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.	Albert Pike	[ "men" ]
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.	Albert Pike	[ "great" ]
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.	Albert Pike	[ "politics", "war" ]
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.	Albert Pike	[ "truth" ]
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.	Albert Pike	[ "faith" ]
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.	Albert Pike	[ "war" ]
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.	Albert Schweitzer	[ "time" ]
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.	Albert Schweitzer	[ "time", "truth" ]
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.	Albert Schweitzer	[ "good" ]
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.	Albert Schweitzer	[ "faith" ]
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.	Albert Schweitzer	[ "history", "truth" ]

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

[ "peace", "war" ]

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

[ "anger" ]

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Albert Einstein

[ "alone" ]

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

[ "science" ]

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein

[ "life" ]

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

[ "nature", "science" ]

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Albert Einstein

[ "time" ]

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

[ "truth" ]

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

[ "education", "learning" ]

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

[ "fear", "good", "hope" ]

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Albert Einstein

[ "war" ]

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Albert Einstein

[ "god", "good" ]

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

[ "knowledge" ]

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

[ "intelligence", "knowledge" ]

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein

[ "god", "religion" ]

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Albert Einstein

[ "god" ]

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

[ "knowledge", "time" ]

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

[ "time" ]

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Albert Einstein

[ "science" ]

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Albert Einstein

[ "nature" ]

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

[ "death" ]

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Albert Einstein

[ "great" ]

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

[ "intelligence" ]

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

[ "science" ]

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Albert Einstein

[ "good" ]

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

[ "great" ]

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

[ "god", "imagination" ]

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Albert Einstein

[ "great" ]

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

[ "intelligence" ]

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

[ "knowledge", "truth" ]

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

[ "technology" ]

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

[ "imagination", "intelligence", "knowledge" ]

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

[ "attitude" ]

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

[ "age" ]

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

[ "war" ]

Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

[ "peace" ]

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Albert Einstein

[ "god" ]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

[ "science" ]

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

[ "religion" ]

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Albert Einstein

[ "men" ]

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

[ "great" ]

God always takes the simplest way.

Albert Einstein

[ "faith", "god" ]

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

[ "nature" ]

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

[ "religion", "science" ]

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

[ "love" ]

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

[ "success" ]

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

[ "art" ]

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.

Albert Einstein

[ "nature" ]

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

[ "faith", "god", "power" ]

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein

[ "respect" ]

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Albert Einstein

[ "politics" ]

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

[ "beauty", "nature" ]

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

[ "success" ]

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

[ "wisdom" ]

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

[ "war" ]

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

[ "education", "learning" ]

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Albert Einstein

[ "religion", "strength" ]

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

[ "imagination", "science" ]

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

[ "age" ]

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

[ "god", "intelligence" ]

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

[ "science" ]

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Albert Einstein

[ "love" ]

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

[ "life" ]

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

[ "poetry" ]

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Albert Einstein

[ "motivational" ]

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

[ "good" ]

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

[ "strength" ]

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

[ "age" ]

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Albert Ellis

[ "future" ]

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

[ "best", "future", "life" ]

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Albert Ellis

[ "change" ]

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Albert Ellis

[ "work" ]

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Albert Ellis

[ "religion" ]

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

[ "art", "love" ]

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

Albert Ellis

[ "hope" ]

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Albert Ellis

[ "change" ]

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Ellis

[ "love" ]

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Albert Ellis

[ "work" ]

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Albert Ellis

[ "war" ]

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Albert Ellis

[ "dating" ]

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Albert Ellis

[ "men", "women" ]

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Albert Ellis

[ "age", "fear", "women" ]

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

Albert Finney

[ "romantic" ]

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.

Albert Finney

[ "amazing" ]

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

Albert Finney

[ "dad" ]

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Albert Finney

[ "sad" ]

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Albert Pike

[ "truth" ]

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Albert Pike

[ "learning", "truth" ]

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike

[ "alone", "death" ]

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Albert Pike

[ "men" ]

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Albert Pike

[ "great" ]

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Albert Pike

[ "politics", "war" ]

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Albert Pike

[ "truth" ]

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Albert Pike

[ "faith" ]

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Albert Pike

[ "war" ]

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Albert Schweitzer

[ "time" ]

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Albert Schweitzer

[ "time", "truth" ]

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

[ "good" ]

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Albert Schweitzer

[ "faith" ]

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Albert Schweitzer

[ "history", "truth" ]