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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
― Albert Einstein

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
― Albert Einstein

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
― Albert Einstein

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
― Albert Einstein

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
― Albert Einstein

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
― Albert Einstein

“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
― Albert Einstein