“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.”
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“Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.”
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
“Knowledge is power.”
“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”
“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”