Albert Einstein Quotes

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

Albert Einstein

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• My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Father
  • Game
  • Involved

• I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Remember
  • Autumn
  • Trees

• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • World
  • Power
  • Training

• In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Different
  • Country
  • Fly

• The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idiots

• When in doubt, do it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Doubt
  • When In Doubt

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Myself
  • Air

• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Help
  • Reality

• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

  

  Francois Fenelon
  • World
  • True
  • Religious

• We have less civil liberties than we had on 9/ 1 1 in some significant ways. But we are also, I believe, less safe as a result in many instances of the sacrifice in human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law that (the Bush) administration has adopted.

  

  David D. Cole
  • Believe
  • Sacrifice
  • Rights

• Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Challenges
  • Security
  • Face

• The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Life
  • Personality
  • Mirror

• Life's too short to be a pushover.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Life
  • Short

• Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • True
  • Something