Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Date of birth: 1788-01-22
Date of death: 1824-04-19
Quotes number: 103
Nationality: British
Profession: Poet
Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Information is not knowledge.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.