We’ve all seen inspiring quotes on social media from Mister Smarty Pants, Albert Einstein. Gizmodo has given us the info to dispute seven of these misquotes from Einstein.
1. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Einstein never said it…. and neither did Ben Franklin.
2. “Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
Nope.
3. “International law exists only in textbooks on international law.”
No. Anthropologist Ashley Montagu actually said it in an interview with Einstein.
4. “Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.”
Snopes has a good breakdown of this quote’s history.
5. “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.”
No, this one isn’t from Einstein either.
6. “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.”
Sorry. Not Einstein. The quote is from E.F. Schumacher‘s 1973 book Small is Beautiful.
7. “Two things inspire me to awe: the starry heavens and the moral universe within.”
No. It’s actually a version of a quote from Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason:
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and moral law within me.”
For actual quotes from the genius, get The Ultimate Quotable Einstein here. (via Gizmodo)
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