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#1

“Sin is not so bad as it is a waste of time.”
― Scott Cairns, Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems

#2

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

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#3

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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#4

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

tags: butterflies, days, fanny-brawne, fifty-common-years, letter, love, summer, three

2286 likes

#5

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

tags: love

1700 likes

#6

“Ideas occur when dissimilar universes collide.”
― Seth Godin

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#7

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

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

37576 likes

#8

“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#9

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

1092 likes

#10

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

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

17464 likes

#11

“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

31242 likes

#12

“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

25167 likes

#13

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, imagination

24696 likes

#14

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

tags: betrayal, disappointment

3565 likes

#15

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

tags: life, respect

13427 likes

#16

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

tags: humor, science

11414 likes

#17

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

9092 likes

#18

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: reality

8429 likes

#19

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

8286 likes

#20

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

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

9132 likes

#21

“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

6827 likes

#22

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: god, rational, religion, thinking

570 likes

#23

“To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.”
― Albert Einstein

37 likes

#24

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
― William Blake

tags: christianity, god, philosophy, poetry

432 likes

#25

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: knowledge

478 likes

#26

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

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#27

“The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life & Opinions

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#28

“you are not thinking; you are merely being logical”
― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

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#29

“Irrational people are much more powerful than rational people, because their threats are so much more convincing.”
― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

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#30

“Hillary thinks like an economist, while Donald is a game theorist, and is able to achieve with one tweet what would take Clinton four years of congressional infighting. That’s alchemy; you may hate it, but it works.”
― Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

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