Thinker Comparison

Albert Einstein vs. Jair Bolsonaro

Read 20 entries attributed to Albert Einstein alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. Compare the wording and topic labels.

This page places 20 entries attributed to Albert Einstein alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.

Topic labels present in both displayed selections: human nature, knowledge, justice, freedom. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Albert Einstein, entry #22: "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Recorded year: 1929.

Attributed to Jair Bolsonaro, entry #99811: "Look, working nine, ten years old at the farm, I was not harmed at all. When a nine-year-old, ten-year-old goes to work somewhere, it's full of people there. Now, when I'm smoking…"

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Albert Einstein

1879 – 1955

Science
Cisleithania
362 quotes

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

#Science

1929

"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

#love

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

#love

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

#love

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

#Science

1929

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

#Science

1929

"Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets."

#science

"It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

#Human Nature

"The meaning of relativity has been widely misunderstood. Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. Relativity, as I see it, merely denotes t…"

#life

"Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he …"

#life

"منطق شما را از A به B می‌برد، ولی تخیل شما را به همه جا می‌برد.» The New Quotable Einstein. Princeton University Press; Enl. Commemorative Ed. / edition"

#education

"Liebe Mutter! Heute eine freudige Nachricht. H. A. Lorentz hat mir telegraphiert, dass die englischen Expeditionen die Lichtablenkung an der Sonne wirklich b…"

#death

"We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tr…"

#knowledge

"Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different at…"

#religion

"Geh Recht viel spazieren, dass Du Recht gesund wirst und lies nicht gar zu viel sondern spar Dir noch was auf bis Du gross bist."

"The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation."

#justice

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

#life

"No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a bi…"

#love

"I do not believe in freedom of the will. Schopenhauer's words: "Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills" accompany me in all situations th…"

#freedom

"If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905."

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Jair Bolsonaro

1955 – 2019

Politics
Brazil
163 quotes

Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.

"Look, working nine, ten years old at the farm, I was not harmed at all. When a nine-year-old, ten-year-old goes to work somewhere, it's full of people there.…"

#time

"Your culture is different to ours. We're not ready for all this in Brazil because no father would ever take pride in having a gay son. Pride? Happiness? Cele…"

#family

"These agents from the Cuban regime were also taken to Venezuela by Hugo Chávez. Today around 60 thousand of them control and interfere with every area of loc…"

#freedom

"I have five children. There were four men, on the fifth I got weak and a woman came out."

#family

"Just before Jones decreed mass suicide, he told his followers to "stop these hysterics," using the same terminology that Bolsonaro invokes to assail preventi…"

#politics

"What is a golden shower?"

#money

"We have a problem with a former adviser, who used to work for Flávio, atypical activities. will be heard next week. If there is something wrong with me or my…"

#humor

"it's devastating to know that someone with so much influence has such a disdain for the queer community."

#knowledge

"Yes, I’m homophobic – and very proud of it."

"Jesus Christ was not totally passive. He drove the money changers from the temple. If he had a firearm, he'd have used it."

#friendship

"To say that hunger happens in Brazil is a big lie. People don't eat well and get sick. That I agree. Now go hungry, no. You do not see poor people on the str…"

#success

"If I'm president, I'll leave UN. That institution is of no use. It's an organization of communists, of people that don't have any commitment at least to Sout…"

#Human Nature

"I defend torture. A drug dealer who acts on the streets against our children must to be immediately put on a pau-de-arara. There would be no human rights in …"

#family

"We want to have a great Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America."

#justice

"In Brazil, we have 1,000 penis amputations a year due to a lack of water and soap. We have to find a way to get out of the bottom of this hole."

#time

"I'm a victim of prejudice against heterosexuals."

"We’re all migrants in Brazil, but we can’t fling our doors open wide for to just come. To come here and marry 11-year-old children... We can’t tolerate certa…"

#family

"The Statute of the Child and Adolescent must to be ripped and thrown into a latrine. It is a stimulus to child vagabondage and rascality."

#family

"Competence? It's a problem for each deputy. If I want to hire a prostitute for my office, I'll hire her. If I want to hire my mother, I'll hire her. It'll be…"

#family

"The recent declarations of Olavo de Carvalho against members of the government of the Republic do not contribute to the unity of its forces and the proposed …"

#politics
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