Albert Einstein Quotes About Past

• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

• Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, One Direction, Doe

• When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Death, Children

• I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

  Albert Einstein

  Past

• If you want to know the future, look at the past.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Looks, Want

• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

• Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Past, Men

  "The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man" by Michael Amrine, New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

• The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Thinking, World

• The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Interest, Greater

• Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Drink, Uncertain

• The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Thinking, Soon Enough

• In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Teacher, Giving Up

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.25, Open Road Media

• In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Mean, Past

  "The Structure of Physics". Book by Carl F. von Weizsäcker, p. 288, 2007.

• In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

  Albert Einstein

  Past, Would Be, Shells

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.53, St. Martin's Press

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