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#1

“Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares”
― Peter Ustinov

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#2

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#4

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

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#5

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#6

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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#7

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

tags: humor, science

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#8

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

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“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

tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery

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#10

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit

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#11

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

tags: inspirational

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#12

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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#13

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom

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#14

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: dangerous, evil, people, world

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#15

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

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“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

tags: art, cybernetics, science

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#17

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

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#18

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

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“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
― Albert Einstein

tags: creativity, epiphany, humor, inspiration

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#20

“God does not play dice with the universe.”
― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

tags: quantum-physics, science

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#21

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, self-improvement, self-knowledge

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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk

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#23

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: growing-older, solitude

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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reading, science

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#25

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein

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“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: problem-solving

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#27

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
― Albert Einstein

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#28

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom

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#29

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

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#30

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”
― Louis D. Brandeis

tags: hopeful, optimism, tenacity

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