Quote of Albert Einstein - It's not that I'm so smart...

Biography - Albert Einstein:

German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. Nobel Prize in Physics (1921).
Born: 1879 - Died: 1955
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Quotes about intelligence:

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

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Quotes for: problem

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

problem

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

René Descartes

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Albert Einstein also said...

Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Albert Einstein

A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.

Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

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