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.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

There's lots of people - this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

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