1. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. “

Albert Einstein

Quoteinvestigator.com: This quotation has evolved over time in the books of Frederick S. Perls. A sub-phrase was deleted and a sub-phrase was added. Also, the initial attribution in 1947 is not very clear. The accuracy of the saying apparently depends on the mutable memory of Perls.

2. ” Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Albert Einstein

hoaxes.org: Einstein did say something very similar. According to quoteinvestigator.com, in an interview published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1929 Einstein was asked, “Then you trust more to your imagination than to your knowledge?” And he responded:

“I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

3. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Albert Einstein

Quoteinvestigator.com: There is no substantive evidence that Einstein wrote or spoke the statement above. It is listed within a section called “Misattributed to Einstein” in the comprehensive reference “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein” from Princeton University Press.^[1]

4. “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Albert Einstein

Quoteinvestigator.com: In June of 1950 the maxim appeared in the journal Poetry in a book review written by the prominent modernist poet Louis Zukofsky. The saying was credited to Einstein and placed inside quotation marks by Zukofsky [EPLZ].

5. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

Albert Einstein

Quoteinvestigator.com: Some months before Albert Einstein’s death in April 1955 an editor of “LIFE” magazine named William Miller visited the famous scientist at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. The journalist was accompanied by his son Pat Miller and by Professor William Hermanns of San Jose State in California. Einstein responded to the son’s desire for guidance in life.

6. ” Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.”

Albert Einstein

Quoteinvestigator.com: The label “eight wonder” was applied to compound interest in an advertisement for a bank in 1925. No attribution was provided, and anonymous advertising copy writers have applied the “eight wonder” label to a wide variety of objects and ideas for more than two hundred years. QI has found no substantive evidence that Albert Einstein, Baron Rothschild, or John D. Rockefeller employed the saying.

7. “A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new.”

Albert Einstein

Quoteinvestigator.com: In 1995 an instance was ascribed to Albert Einstein. QI has found no substantive support for this linkage, and a similar remark was published in 1901 without attribution.

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

Albert Einstein

Quoteinvestigator.com: The exact quote is: “Beim Menschen ist es wie beim Velo. Nur wenn er faehrt, kann er bequem die Balance halten.” A more literal translation is: “It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.” Courtesy of Barbara Wolff, Einstein archives, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

9. “I don’t know with what weapons world war III will be fought, but world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Albert Einstein

Snopes.com: We found several other instances of people making similar statements at around the same time, indicating that this was a popular opinion at that time that was evidently shared by Albert Einstein. However, we have been unable to find a direct quote from the physicist that matches this particular meme.

10. “The world is a dangerous place not because there are so many evil people in it, but because there are so many good ones willing to sit back and let evil happen.”

Albert Einstein

Quoteinvestigator.com: Albert Einstein who died in 1955 deserves credit for the contents of the 1953 letter he wrote in German. A French translation appeared in “Conversations avec Pablo Casals” in 1955, and an English translation appeared in “Conversations with Casals” in 1956. Distinct but thematically similar remarks began to appear in English by 1978. QI conjectures Einstein’s 1953 statement inspired the evolution of these variants.

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