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The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic,

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

Albert Einstein
Appreciation, Teacher, Art

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

Albert Einstein
Art, Peace, People

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

Albert Einstein
Art, Expression, Statistics

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein
Art, Crazy, Moving

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.

Albert Einstein
Art, Mind, Connections

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

Albert Einstein
Teacher, Art, Humanity
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

Albert Einstein
Life, Art, Powerful

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

Albert Einstein
Art, Hands, Energy

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Albert Einstein
Dance, Dream, Art

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. 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.

Albert Einstein
Art, Kindness, Men
"Mein Weltbild". Book by Albert Einstein, 1931.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Albert Einstein
Art, Skills, Levels
"Beautiful minds" by Peter D Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2002.

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

Albert Einstein
Art, Memorable, Creativity
Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Art, Views
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.181, Open Road Media

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Albert Einstein
Art, Lying, Believe

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Albert Einstein
Happy, Art, Feelings
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Albert Einstein
Education, Art, Book
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.100, Princeton University Press

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
Art, Freedom, Science
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.10, Open Road Media

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

Albert Einstein
Art, Men, Mind
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Art, Feelings
"The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It".

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

Albert Einstein
Art, Lying, Men
"Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

Albert Einstein
Life, Art, Fundamentals

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

Albert Einstein
Art, Peace, Greatness

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

Albert Einstein
Art, Mind, Wish

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Albert Einstein
Motivational, Art, Freedom
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.37, Princeton University Press

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