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What Enneagram Type was Albert Einstein?

wearing stripes with plaid comes easy

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

not to stop questioning

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Intellectuals solve problems

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Only two things are infinite

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

difference between genius and stupidity

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

explain it to your grandmother

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

known so universally and yet

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

from a universal standpoint

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

ideals which have lighted my way

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.