Thinker Comparison

Donald Trump vs. Albert Einstein

Read 20 entries attributed to Donald Trump alongside 20 attributed to Albert Einstein. Compare the wording and topic labels.

This page places 20 entries attributed to Donald Trump alongside 20 attributed to Albert Einstein. 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: knowledge, human nature, justice, religion. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

Attributed to Donald Trump, entry #54769: "We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel"

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

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Donald Trump

1945

Politics
United States
973 quotes

Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

"We're not entering a dark winter, we are entering the final turn and the light at the end of the tunnel"

#success

"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?"

#knowledge

"These people are clowns"

#Human Nature

"The Dow Jones Industrial just closed above 29,000! You are so lucky to have me as your President. With Joe Hiden’ it would crash."

#justice

"When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at…"

#knowledge

"In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat. It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't b…"

#justice

"Obama gave a good speech but not nearly as good as the press would have you believe. Whether it's good or bad, the press will say it's fantastic. In many way…"

#faith

"No American should be forced to choose between the dictates of the federal government and the tenets of their faith."

#hope

"Well, er, it wasn't, er, it wasn't very stupid, I can tell you that."

#language

"I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."

#knowledge

"It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy."

#time

"Look, when I go to rallies, they turn around, they start screaming at CNN. They want to throw their placards at CNN. You know. I think you would do much bett…"

#philosophy

"We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not…"

#mind

"Mike Flynn is a fine person, and I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He is a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vic…"

#friendship

"Save, and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it. Get rid of the fraud. Get rid of the waste and abuse, but save it. People have been paying it for year…"

#money

"I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person."

#money

"They're trying to scare everybody, from meetings, cancel the meetings, close the schools—you know, destroy the country. And that's okay, as long as we can wi…"

#knowledge

"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected."

#humor

"Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are …"

#friendship

"These are people that are outside the country, so we're really not talking about the Constitution. And it's not about religion. This is about safety. This ha…"

#religion
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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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