“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein Secondary source“Knowledge is of no real value if all you can tell me is what happened yesterday. It is necessary to tell what will happen tomorrow.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
— William Blake Primary source“The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“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 the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think, than in all the other time. I’d like to be an old man and to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew about so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“There isn’t always an explanation for everything.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“I am a biography nut myself. And I think when you’re trying to teach the great concepts that work, it helps to tie them into the lives and personalities of the people who developed them. I think you learn economics better if you make Adam Smith your friend. That sounds funny, making friends among the eminent dead, but if you go through life making friends with the eminent dead who had the right ideas, I think it will work better for you in life and work better in education. It’s way better than just giving the basic concepts.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“There is no knowledge that is not power”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
— Benjamin Franklin Disputed“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
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