“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don t know as much as we think we know.”
“It s only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.”
“You seem to think you’re insignificant, but the truth is you’re so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can’t be the first person to have fallen in love with you, and I won’t be the last. But I do believe I will love you the most.”
“In God s eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.”
“Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”
“Cleverness isn t always true nor is the truth always clever.”
“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.”
“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”
“I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.”
“I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.”
“What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.”
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“What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.”
“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world. 1. He divorced the mother of his children, which caused Mileva, his wife, to have a break down and be hospitalized. 2.He was a ladies man and was known to have had several affairs; infidelity was listed as a reason for his divorce. 3.He married his cousin. 4.He had an estranged relationship with his son. 5. He had his first child out of wedlock. 6. He urged the FDR to build the Atom bomb, which killed thousands of people. 7. He was Jewish, yet he made many arguments for the possibility of God. Yet, hypocritically he did not believe in the Jewish God or Christianity. He stated, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
“There s a stark difference between the words prodigy and genius. Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.”
“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
“Intelligence and education that hasn t been tempered by human affection isn t worth a damn.”