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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Orison Swett Marden

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Khalil Gibran

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

Albert Einstein

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Francis Bacon

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

David Hume

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Benjamin Disraeli

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Albert Einstein

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

Voltaire

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Albert Einstein

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Benjamin Disraeli

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James




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