"We're all 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."

Psychology, Genius, Judgment, Self-Worth, Injustice

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"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Psychology, Illness, Talking, Will

"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Psychology, Truth, Fear, Failure, Doubt

"And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Psychology, Obsession, Idea, Mind, Focus

"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Psychology, Truth, Help, Addiction, Reality

"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Psychology, Loneliness, Truth, Personality, Emotion

"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Psychology, Idealism, Childhood, Reflection

"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Psychology, Pleasure, Contrast, Experience, Behavior

"I am a mask, concealing the real."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Psychology, Identity, Self, Illusion, Truth

"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Psychology, Sympathy, Mental Health, Truth, Emotion

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"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."

"And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed."

"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."

"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored."

"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."

"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."

"I am a mask, concealing the real."

"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."

Explore more quotes by Albert Einstein

"Love is a better master than duty."

"There are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within these laws only rationally determined constants occur (not constants, therefore, whose numerical value could be changed without destroying the theory)."

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"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

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"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."