Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.