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Albert Einstein approached Vision from first principles, cutting through assumptions to reveal fundamental truths. This archive captures that thinking, giving you access to frameworks you can build on. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, allowing you to understand their reasoning. Use this when you need to think clearly about Vision without inheriting broken mental models.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"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."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"Information is not knowledge."
"To see with your own eyes and feel with your own heart is a much rarer thing than we think."
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space."
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control."
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
"My passion for social justice has often brought me into conflict with people, as has my aversion to any obligation that was not based on my inner conviction."
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
Source: Interview: What Life Means to Einstein (Saturday Evening Post, 1929)
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Source: Interview: What Life Means to Einstein (The Saturday Evening Post)
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
"Faith is the only way to find the truth in a world of uncertainty."
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
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