“Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?”

— Albert Einstein

As quoted in New York Times article "The Einstein Theory of Living; At 65 he leads the simplest of lives — and grapples with the most complex thoughts." http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713FA3A58157A93C0A81788D85F408485F9 (12 March 1944) <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me? <br class="br">As quoted in The Dark Side of Shakespeare : An Elizabethan Courtier, Diplomat, Spymaster, & Epic Hero, p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=-5SxGKrTRUEC&pg=PA126 (2003) by W. Ron Hess <br class="br">Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me. <br class="br">As quoted in "The culture of Einstein" at MSNBC (18 March 2005) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7406337/ <br class="br">1940s

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