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The whole business organization of misattributing quotes certainly didn't brainstorm with the Internet—it'due south been going on as long every bit anyone can remember: One time a famous person gets a reputation for proverb witty, profound or inspiring things, people tend to attribute quotes to them that audio like something they might have said, but that they didn't actually say.

Garson O'Toole—a pen name used by the author who bills himself "The Internet's Foremost Quote Investigator"—calls people similar Abraham Lincoln, Marking Twain, Dorothy Parker, Albert Einstein, Yogi Berra, Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe "quote superstars." Such famous and charismatic people often get "hosts" for quotations they never uttered, O'Toole writes in his new book, "Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations."

Albert Einstein (Credit: Fred Stein Archive)

For example, take these ofttimes repeated and reprinted Albert Einstein quotes—none of which the great physicist actually said:

"Not everything that counts can be counted."

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"Everyone is a genius. Merely if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it volition live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

"Two things inspire me to awe–the starry heavens to a higher place and the moral universe within."

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"Education is that which remains, if ane has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"When y'all sit with a overnice girl for two hours you remember information technology'southward only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute y'all think it'south two hours. That's relativity."

Now here'south the existent bargain on these quotes:

"Not everything that counts can exist counted."
Every bit O'Toole writes in his book, credit for this quote should go to the sociology professor William Bruce Cameron, who included it in a couple of articles and a 1963 textbook. Einstein plain wasn't associated with the saying until the mid-1980s, some three decades later his death.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same matter over and over over again and expecting dissimilar results."
A favorite of politicians (and pretty much everybody else), this quote has been wrongly attributed to Benjamin Franklin every bit well equally—merely at that place'southward no evidence either of them said it. "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein," an authoritative complication of his virtually memorable utterances, identified the quote every bit a misattribution, and mentioned its apply in the 1983 novel "Sudden Death" past Rita Mae Brown. On his website, Quote Investigator, O'Toole traced, the link between insanity and repetition back to at least the 19th century, but noted its apply in a Narcotics Bearding pamphlet besides every bit novels (including Chocolate-brown's), TV shows and various other sources.

"Everyone is a genius. But if you guess a fish past its ability to climb a tree, it volition live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
No noun bear witness exists suggesting Einstein made this statement, though information technology (as O'Toole wrote on his website) has been attributed to him in at to the lowest degree ane self-assist volume. In fact, the quote can be traced to a well-established apologue involving animals doing impossible things, used to illustrate the fallacy of judging someone by a skill or ability that person (or animal) does not possess.

"Two things inspire me to awe—the starry heavens to a higher place and the moral universe within."
In fact, this one is a version of a statement made non by Einstein but by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant in his famous "Critique of Practical Reason" (1889). The actual quote is: "Two things make full the mind with e'er-increasing wonder and awe, the more ofttimes and the more intensely the mind of thought is fatigued to them: the starry heavens in a higher place me and moral law inside me."

"Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in schoolhouse."
In "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein," editor Alice Calaprice clarified that Einstein agreed with this statement, simply did not actually say information technology. In fact, he was quoting a passage by an anonymous "wit" in a affiliate he wrote on education, included in his book "Out of My Subsequently Years."

"When you sit with a nice daughter for ii hours you think it's merely a infinitesimal, but when yous sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it'due south two hours. That's relativity."
This absolutely brilliant explanation of Einstein'south most famous theory is non something he himself said, only comes from an anecdote that was reportedly circulating around him in 1929, when it appeared in a New York Times article nearly him. The reporter put the anecdotal argument in quotation marks, and poof! A famous (and virtually likely fake) quote was born.

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