Quotes About Knowledge

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Imagination is more valuable than information.

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Knowledge dilutes imagination.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

It is good to know the truth but it is better to speak of palm trees.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself