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Quotes about Knowledge


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.

Robert Burton

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

e. e. cummings

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?

Thomas Hood

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Mario Andretti

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Sudie Back

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

Peter Mcwilliams

Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.

Farrah Plotinus

We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well; But when did woman ever yet invent?"

Lord Alfred Tennyson

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

William Cowper

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Edmund Burke

Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farrar

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Joseph Addison

Knowledge is power.

William Alexander, Earl of Stirling

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.

Francis Bacon

For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]

Francis Bacon

But thou, O daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Francis Bible

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Francis Bible

He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

Francis Bible

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux)

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