Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Date of birth: 1879-03-14
Date of death: 1955-04-18
Quotes number: 182
Nationality: German
Profession: Physicist
Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
'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.'
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
Imagination rules the world.
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.