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Quotes About Knowledge

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~ Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought.
~ Carroll Bryant
Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.
~ Jaako J. Wallenius
We ain't going to curse anyone, " said Granny firmly. "It hardly ever works if they don't know you've done it.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.
~ Stephen Emond, Winter Town
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
~ Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
God, how I hate the fact that I know this stuff. It only proves that it is possible to learn by osmosis.
~ Natalie Blitt
I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
~ H. L. Hunt
All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.
~ G. H. Hardy
Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime.
~ Terence McKenna
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
~ Joseph Joubert
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
~ Jean Toomer
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
~ George Santayana
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.
~ Joseph Black
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
~ Pete Hamill
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
~ Robert Fulghum
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
~ Ramana Maharshi
All that you can imagine you already know.
~ Stephen Spender
The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
~ Julia Child
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
~ Adam Smith