copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2013-10-29): For instance just in the last month I’ve heard someone say "Albert Einstein said ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'" I’ve also heard someone say "Albert Einstein said ‘The only constant is change.'" A Greek Philosopher named Heraclitus came up with that one and the insanity quote was delivered by Narcotics Anonymous Rita Mae Brown. The problem is no one knows who Rita Mae Brown is and Heraclitus is quickly being forgotten. With Biblical literacy dropping at an all time rate I expect we will soon see people saying "Albert Einstein said ‘If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.'" Shakespeare probably has his wisdom stolen more often than anyone but fortunately for him Albert Einstein said "Revenge is a dish best served cold." [...] The more well-known a quote, the less likely that quote will be attributed to its original author, in turn the more likely that quote will be attributed to Albert Einstein. Here’s my advice; next time you hear some one say "Albert Einstein said. . . " just assume that Albert Einstein didn’t actually say it. Don’t bother doing an internet search because you don’t have to be an Einstein to set up a website that tells people that Albert Einsten said "The only thing to fear is fear itself." Just do a quick translation. "Albert Einstein" means "someone smart but I don’t know who."
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2015-06-18): I’ve always liked the Albert Einstein quote, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I recently started following the witting observations of @MeetingBoy ("Say or do something stupid in a meeting and I’ll tweet it"). He’s putting out a 2010 MeetingBoy calendar in the next week or so and asked if I’d create a cartoon to illustrate one of his tweets. So, this cartoon is based on one that I liked the most: "Definition of insanity: holding the same meeting with the same people every week and expecting different results." [...] First thing this week, I’m going to question all of the recurring meetings on my calendar, see which ones I can overhaul and which ones I can remove entirely. Probably the best new year’s work resolution I can make.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2022-01-05): One of the Most Famous Quotes Is Wrongly Attributed To Einstein [...] Who else could have said it? Such wisdom, you think. What if you wrote three novels and spent lots of time writing. Why write the fourth book, when Einstein has already said it? Right? According to "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein," edited by Alice Calaprice, published by Princeton University Press, the quote…
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2021-04-27): The claim: Famous quote is credited to Albert Einstein [...] Quote is misattributed to Einstein [...] The claim that Albert Einstein said, "Everyone 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," is FALSE, based on our research. The quote is misattributed to Einstein.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2019-06-26): FACT CHECK: Did Albert Einstein Coin This Saying On The ‘Definition Of Insanity’? An image shared on Facebook claims that theoretical physicist Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." [...] This quote may have actually originated with a Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet two years earlier, according to the website Quote Investigator. Printed in 1981, the pamphlet offers a slightly different version of the saying: "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results."
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2010-11-22): 2. It’s rarely an accurate statement. Once you leave the laboratory, there are many, many instances in life in which you can do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. [...] Were this definition of insanity true, I would’ve quit the game of golf after my very first round. It is only through the hitting of ball after ball after ball that muscle memory begins to kick in and allow you to strike the ball with consistency and effectiveness. It is only through doing the same thing over again and expecting different results that a golfer can become a better player. [...] Utilizing a misunderstood definition of insanity over and over again and expecting a different result seems more like insanity to me.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2024-10-05): insanity noun in·san·i·ty in-ˈsa-nə-tē plural insanities 1 dated : a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder 2 3 a : extreme folly or unreasonableness the insanity of violence His comments were pure insanity. b : something utterly foolish or unreasonable the insanities of modern life
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2024-01-01): I could not begin to count the number of awkward directs and disastrous crosses I have been part of or observed in DWI cases. I often saw the same awful techniques and bad habits applied by trial attorneys, myself included, and officer witnesses in the very next outing—it was the very definition of insanity (as Albert Einstein put it, "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"). As I stood there in Portland, speechless, my brain raced. Professional sports teams begin practice every week looking at film of the last game. Why do we not use the same strategy? Of course, I know the answer: As prosecutors we are already thinking about the next case. If we won, we are ready to go back to the office to brag. If we lost, we just want to disappear. The long and short of it is that we squander an excellent chance to improve our skills and the abilities of our officer witnesses. [...] Officers generally don’t go through the effort to make an arrest when it is not justified. Prosecutors don’t generally try defendants who should be acquitted. But investigative, advocacy, and trial mistakes explain most of our losses at trial. If we fail to correct those mistakes when we identify them, we are doomed to suffer more such losses, resulting in injustice. And repeated injustice is insanity.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2018-09-30): Einstein’s had a lot of witty and profound sayings, but "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" is not one of them. And yet, these words had often been misattributed to him. It is not exactly clear who came up with the phrase, but it is a fact that a lot of people got convinced that originated behind the famous mustache of Einstein. [...] Same idea. Different result. This is counterintuitive AF. It was surprising after the fact, but even harder to imagine a priori. [...] Unscientific. Because science is all about reproducibility. The definition of science is doing the same thing over and over and knowing that you’ll get the same result. You can prove scientifically that if you drop an apple, in the absence of interference from other forces, it will fall down. It would be incredibly stupid and yes… insane to believe that the apple may not fall down. It will be non-scientific, which means that it is not the way the universe we live in works.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2013-10-07): We've all heard Albert Einstein's famous line: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." As it turns out, insanity might be crediting that quote to Einstein over and over again. He never said it. [...] Different versions of this quote appear everywhere (doing the same thing twice, expecting the same result, etc.), and we owe none of them to Einstein.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2017-03-23): Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. [...] He pops in a definition of insanity – "It’s the repetition of the same action expecting different results. Like jumping out of a 40-storey building, breaking every bone, spending six months in hospital, going back to the same building, up to the 39th floor, jumping and expecting it to be different. It is NEVER different." [...] The jurist from the Hoosier State subscribes to Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome."
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2019-10-15): What’s really interesting about all this misattribution is that nobody actually knows where the phrase came from. One source traces it back to the mystery writer Rita Mae Brown. The phrase "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results" can be found in her 1983 book Sudden Death. Still, it appears that she was merely paraphrasing an expression that had been written elsewhere. Many point to a Narcotics Anonymous text, released in 1981, as the original source for this saying. Others point out that it seems to have been in oral use in the addiction-recovery community before that, as it was cited in a pamphlet from an addiction-recovery program in 1980, and in an Alcoholics Anonymous text published during the same year. However, the original version of this Alcoholics Anonymous text does not appear to be online; Google Books, for example, only has the 1992 version.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2023-03-27): A favorite of politicians (and pretty much everybody else), this quote has been wrongly attributed to Benjamin Franklin as well as—but there’s no evidence either of them said it. "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein," an authoritative complication of his most memorable utterances, identified the quote as a misattribution, and mentioned its use in the 1983 novel "Sudden Death" by Rita Mae Brown. On his website, Quote Investigator, O’Toole traced, the link between insanity and repetition back to at least the 19th century, but noted its use in a Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet as well as novels (including Brown’s), TV shows and various other sources. No substantive evidence exists suggesting Einstein made this statement, though it (as O’Toole wrote on his website) has been attributed to him in at least one self-help book. In fact, the quote can be traced to a well-established allegory involving animals doing impossible things, used to illustrate the fallacy of judging someone by a skill or ability that person (or animal) does not possess. [...] In "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein," editor Alice Calaprice clarified that Einstein agreed with this statement, but did not actually say it. In fact, he was quoting a passage by an anonymous "wit" in a chapter he wrote on education, included in his book "Out of My Later Years."
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2023-02-01): First of all, the actual definition of insanity is this: [...] Second of all, there’s no evidence that Albert Einstein said it. But misattribution is a favorite pastime on the internet. Whenever I try to confirm a common quote it seems more likely that it was misattributed. [...] IT’S TOTALLY POSSIBLE TO GET DIFFERENT RESULTS WHEN YOU DO THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER!!!
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-11)
Evidence (2021-11-24): Albert Einstein often gets the credit for this saying, but you probably won’t be surprised to learn that he never actually said it. This misattributed quotation has been well documented: it appears to have originated around 1980 in literature published by Narcotics Anonymous (Becker; "Insanity"). [...] Becker, Michael. "Einstein Probably Didn’t Say That Famous Quote about Insanity." Becker’s Online Journal, 13 Nov. 2012, www.news.hypercrit.net/2012/11/13/einstein-on-insanity. [...] Quote Investigator, 23 Mar. 2017, quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same.
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2019-07-26): No credible sources link this statement to Harvey. The statement originally came from an anonymous letter published on a conservative website.
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2019-08-09): A post shared on Facebook claims that American comedian Steve Harvey wrote a long statement in favor of President Donald Trump. "Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want," reads a line from the alleged statement. [...] This Facebook post alleges that Harvey wrote a long statement that praises Trump as "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want" and speaks negatively about politicians and illegal immigrants. The long statement is paired with a photograph of Harvey.
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2022-11-15): Complaining about how he is under criminal investigation for taking presidential documents to his Florida home and resort, Trump repeated a debunked claim about former President Barack Obama’s handling of presidential documents. [...] Trump made a false claim about one of his signature policies, a wall at the border with Mexico. [...] Trump claimed that Democratic governors and mayors refused to ask for "help" even during "a total breakdown of law and order," and "don’t want to ever ask to do anything," so "we sent in the National Guard in Minneapolis and in other places."
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2017-01-17): Steve Harvey Breaks Silence After Trump Meeting Recoil: 'I Didn't Expect The Backlash To Be So Fierce' Comedian Steve Harvey is speaking out about the reaction over his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump Friday. [...] Harvey's wife, Marjorie, came to his defense.
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2024-02-02): On Thursday, PolitiFact published its 1,000th fact check of a claim made by Donald Trump. The publication, which usually refrains from wading into political discussions or weighing in on a politician’s overall character, took the opportunity to release an analysis of those years of work. Its finding? Trump lies a lot. "American fact-checkers have never encountered a politician who shares Trump’s disregard for factual accuracy," the authors wrote. "Ever since he descended the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, we have encountered a firehose of claims." [...] Donald Trump makes so many patently false claims that are recycled from earlier claims, but with some slight variation. How do you decide whether it’s worth it to fact-check these kinds of endless falsehoods?
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2024-06-14): "You can be president, too, with a criminal record": Steve Harvey takes dig at Trump in chat with VP Kamala Harris. Comedian Steve Harvey took a dig at former president Donald Trump's conviction in a chat Friday with Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris spoke with Harvey at the 100 Black Men of America conference in Atlanta, Georgia, touting the Biden administration’s economic policies, including lifting a prohibition on people with a criminal record from applying for Small Business Administration loans, as Biden runs for reelection.
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2024-09-27): - Harris claimed that Trump "wants to be a dictator on Day 1," but the former president has said that he was joking when he said he would be a dictator for one day. [...] Harris also went on to misleadingly claim that Trump is again threatening violence. "Donald Trump, the candidate, has said, in this election, there will be a bloodbath if this and the outcome of this election is not to his liking," she said. As we have written, Trump made his "bloodbath" remark at a March 16 rally in Ohio, while warning of China building auto manufacturing plants in Mexico that will cause a hemorrhaging of U.S. auto jobs. A campaign spokesperson told the Washington Post that Trump was referring to "an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and autoworkers" if he loses the election. [...] Harris claimed Trump intends to enact what in effect is a "sales tax," which she said economists estimate would raise prices on typical American families by $4,000 a year. That’s a high-end estimate from a liberal think tank about Trump’s plan for "universal baseline tariffs" on imports.
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2024-10-09): One likely reason the remark didn’t get that much attention is because Trump — at the same rally — referred to Harris without evidence as "mentally disabled." [...] Many later regretted that decision. Throughout his presidency and beyond, television outlets that are not Trump-friendly have grappled with the question of how much to show Trump unfiltered, and still haven’t fully settled on an answer. CNN shows Trump at rallies on occasion, rarely at length. But in a back-to-the-future move, some experts now say it’s best to let people hear what Trump says. Poynter’s McBride praised The 19th for a story on child care when, frustrated by an attempt to clarify Trump’s positions with his campaign, the website simply printed a baffling 365-word direct quote from Trump when he was asked about the issue.
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2024-09-23): In early 2019, a viral Facebook message appeared to indicate that the comedian and broadcaster Steve Harvey had published an unusual defense of President Donald Trump, likening him to a flawed janitor hired to clear a home of raccoons -- which represented the Democratic and Republican parties as well as undocumented immigrants in the analogy: [...] Here's why we want Trump: Yes, he's a bit of a jerk; Yes, he's an egomaniac; but we don't care!.. The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republicans and Democrats can be two-faced and gutless, and illegals are everywhere.. We want it all fixed!.. We don't care that Trump is crude, we don't care that he insults people, we don't care that he has changed positions, we don't care that he's been married 3 times, we don't care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell, we don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorist.. This country became weak and bankrupt, our enemies were making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo, and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in; "AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED".. And Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want..
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2020-07-23): Fact check: Post praising Trump misattributed to entertainer Steve Harvey The claim: Entertainer Steve Harvey wrote a 'racoon story' supporting President Donald Trump As celebrities vocalize their support for presidential candidates ahead of the 2020 election, a pro-Trump post has resurfaced claiming to come from comedian Steve Harvey.
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2024-06-20): Democratic Tap Dancer #SteveHarvey — Black Alpha Network (@BlackAlphaNetw1) June 18, 2024 [...] A year after taking up the Oval Office, Trump met with Harvey to discuss the housing crisis and urban development. The actor was slammed for doing so. On his defunct talk show, he once made a grand show of support for Trump by deterring a white woman from fleeing the country with her husband in fear of Trump’s reign by saying that Trump wouldn’t be that bad and that he would "make America great again." [...] Steve Harvey, " Dont run! Trump is going to make America Great Again!"
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2023-08-02): We fact-checked four of Trump’s claims, which include inaccuracies and revisionist history. [...] Jeffrey Herf, a University of Maryland emeritus history professor who specializes in 20th century Germany, told us there is "no truth whatsoever" to Trump’s comparison. [...] Democrats called Trump an illegitimate president and objected to presidential election results in the past. — Aug. 1, Truth Social
Claim: Claims Steve Harvey made a long statement calling President Donald Trump "the only guy who seems to understand what the people want." (Viral Post, 2019-07-26)
Evidence (2019-04-24): A viral Facebook rant that likens President Donald Trump to an exterminator and undocumented immigrants to raccoons is being attributed to radio personality and television host Steve Harvey. [...] Steve Harvey Facebook post, January 11, 2019 [...] Snopes, Did Comedian Steve Harvey Praise President Trump as a Politically Incorrect ‘Fixer’?, March 4, 2019