Albert Einstein on Intelligence
1879–1955
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? (1948)
Great moral teachers of humanity were, in a certain sense, geniuses in the art of living more than in the art of thinking.
Ideas and Opinions (1954)
Experience proves that it is rather the so called 'Intelligentsia' that is most apt to yield to these disastrous suggestions, since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw, but encounters it in its easiest synthetic form-upon the printed page.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Everyone 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.
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