Quotes About Inspiration

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

There's so much music out there, and so many different styles that I've been influenced by, so each album reflects some of that knowledge or influence that I've had.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.