A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
Interpretation
True intelligence comes from recognizing the limits of one's knowledge.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of humility and self-awareness in the pursuit of knowledge. A true genius is not someone who claims to know everything but rather one who understands that there is always more to learn and is willing to acknowledge their ignorance in order to continue growing intellectually.
In practice
During a seminar on critical thinking, one might say this quote to encourage participants to embrace their unknowns.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.
Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!
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