Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.~ Albert Einstein The important thing is never to stop questioning.~ Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.~ Albert Einstein To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.~ Albert Einstein All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.~ Albert Einstein As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.... No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.~ Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge.~ Albert Einstein The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.~ Albert Einstein It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.~ Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.~ Albert Einstein It is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedom’s defenses are found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man – in the development of his own personality – has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man’s essential nature.~ Thomas I. Emerson That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.~ Quintus Ennius In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.~ Desiderius Erasmus When somebody lies, somebody loses.~ Stephanie Ericsson The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.~ Thomas Erskine What is the fairest fruit of the English Tree of Liberty? The security of our rights and of the law, and that no man shall be brought to trial where there is a prejudice against him.~ Thomas Erskine Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print