knowledge - quotes

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Richard (Phillips) Feynman, 1918-1988

was an US educator and physicist

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

( Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985 )

Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804

was a German philosopher

That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

( Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his letters to his disciple M.S.Subbalakshmi, another famous Indian singer and Magsayee Award )

Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662

was a French mathematician, physicist

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Plato, ca. 427 BC-ca. 347 BC

was a Greek author and philosopher in Athens

Knowledge is true opinion.

Helen (Adams) Keller, 1880-1968

was an US blind and deaf educator

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Plato, ca. 427 BC-ca. 347 BC

was a Greek author and philosopher in Athens

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

( “The Republic” (Plato), ca 380 BC )

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

was an English poet and playwright

Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

( “As You Like It”, Act 1 scene 2, 1599 )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

( “On Education”, 1950 )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence — these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

( “The World As I See It”, 1934 )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

( attributed )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Oscar (Fingall O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900

was an Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.