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Did Einstein actually say "“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb...?
“Everybody 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.”
Did he actually say this or is it a misquote? I can't find anything online confirming or refuting it.
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Highly unlikely.
Quotation websites - except Wikiquote, which demands stringent source citation - are worthless, and copy all kinds of unattributed garbage.
A look in Google Books, however, finds no references to this alleged quote except in a spate of self-help/inspirational books (another regular source of invented quotations) in the early 2000s. If it were real, it would either have earlier citation, or definite proof of having been discovered in new biographical research.