"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." -- first recorded in The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose (2004) by Matthew Kelly, in which he attributed it to Albert Einstein (which is why lots of other people attribute it to Einstein), but Quote Investigator, looking into it in 2013, found no evidence the quote actually came from Einstein (but did pull together an assortment of allegories based on unfair expectations of animals)
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