Quotes About Wisdom

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.

Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

The mind contains all possibilities.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

All that you can imagine you already know.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

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.

From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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.

Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

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.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.