Albert Einstein Quotes

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

You are.

Become reality driven. Don’t kid yourself or others.

One has to view things realistically.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.