...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
Interpretation
Knowledge is a valuable trait in humans, often expressed by those who seek it the least.
This quote by Albert Einstein highlights the irony that often those who speak most about knowledge or wisdom may not genuinely pursue it. It suggests that true wisdom is characterized by humility and the understanding that one can always learn more, while those who are loudest in their assertions of knowledge may lack the drive to truly understand or seek it.
In practice
In a speech about education, one might say, 'As Einstein wisely pointed out, knowledge is often claimed by those who seek it the least.'
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
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.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.
Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.
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