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(11,665 posts)Here are two websites that attribute that quote to Eiinsein...
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Albert Einstein Quotes - General (Scroll down to the quote in bold)
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
"People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born." - Albert Einstein in a letter to Otto Juliusburger;
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." - Albert Einstein
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." - Albert Einstein
"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." - Albert Einstein
"Where there is love there is no question." - Albert Einstein
"I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." - Albert Einstein
"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service." - Albert Einstein
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein
"Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all." - Albert Einstein
"The search for truth is more precious than its possession." - Albert Einstein
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein
"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?" - Albert Einstein
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." - Albert Einstein
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple." - Albert Einstein
"Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein
"Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice." - Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a [person] does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence." - Albert Einstein
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends." - Albert Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
"To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window." - Albert Einstein
"I love to travel, But hate to arrive." - Albert Einstein
"Politics is more difficult than physics." - Albert Einstein
"I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me." - Albert Einstein
"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious." - Albert Einstein
"Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully." - Albert Einstein
"A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." - Albert Einstein
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have give me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth." - Albert Einstein
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
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