Einstein: Master of the One-Liner

Not content with being voted the most important human being of the twentieth century, Einstein was also the greatest master of the insightful quote about the business of creativity. I’ve written about several of them previously here and I expect to use more in the future.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"The only really valuable thing is intuition."

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

"Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created." 

“Information is not knowledge.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

So many of them turn “common sense” on its head. Which is the MOST important, yet LEAST understood?