Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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Albert EinsteinLetter to Morris Raphael Cohen (1940)
About Albert Einstein
Physicist who developed the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize. (1879-1955)
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- 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.Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post (1929)
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Letter to his son Eduard (1930)
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.Quoted in 'Death of a Genius', LIFE magazine (1955)
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.Letter to Carl Seelig (1952)
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Reply to the editors of Youth, quoted in The New York Times (1932)
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Mein Weltbild / The World As I See It (1931)
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- If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working.Vincent van Gogh
- They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.Frida Kahlo
- I know how it looks. But just start. Nothing is insurmountable.Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.Napoleon Hill
- No matter what happens, always be yourself!Dale Carnegie
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