Did Albert Einstein really say it?
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Really: Unknown, 2004
It first shows up credited to Einstein in a 2004 self-help book, almost 50 years after he died. The fable behind it is an old teaching parable.
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