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Albert Einstein Quotes about Truth

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Trust, Truth

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

Albert Einstein
Trust, Leadership, Truth
"Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Priorities, Effort
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Desire, Precedence
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.30, Broadway Books

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Future, Science
Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein
Wise, Funny Inspirational, Truth
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Justice, Community

Experience alone can decide on truth.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Lying, Science
Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild”

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Funny, Truth

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein
Happiness, Truth, Vanity
"Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Relationship, Truth

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Science, Understanding
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.18, Princeton University Press

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Believe, Fighting
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.163, Broadway Books

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Men, Comfort
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.186, Open Road Media

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Honesty, Understanding
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.452, Running Press

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.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Real, Dark
"Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium" by Albert Einstein, www.einsteinandreligion.com. 1941.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Eye, Math
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Statistics, Duty
"The Ultimate Quotable Einstein".

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein
Courage, Children, Truth
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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