Albert Einstein Quotes

A true genius admits that he knows nothing.

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Want
  • Death
  • Missing

• Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • True

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Religious
  • India
  • Temples

• I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Talent

• When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Death
  • Struggle

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • College
  • Politics
  • Gold

• You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Art
  • Guy

• God knows, we don't want prayer.

  

  Oliver North
  • God
  • Want
  • Prayer

• I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Real
  • Enough
  • Happen

• In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

  

  Beck
  • Loved
  • Train
  • Airplane

• Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Music
  • Career
  • Myself

• He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Man
  • Space
  • Nothing

• I started stating that maybe I should run for governor. Well, it caught on like wildfire. I felt I'd boxed myself into a corner-if I didn't attempt to do this, I would lose my credibility. And in the world of talk radio, once that happens, you're finished.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • World

• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Happy
  • Today
  • Night

• If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Listening
  • Inspiration
  • Ocean

• A true genius admits that he knows nothing.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Knows
  • Genius