Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Beside these there is no other way; for the act is necessarily either done or not done, and those who act either have knowledge or do not.
For to people of that sort, just as to those lacking self-restraint, knowledge is without benefit. But to those who fashion their longings in accord with reason and act accordingly, knowing about these things would be of great profit.
While it is true that scientific results are entirely independent from religious or moral considerations, those individuals to whom we owe the great creative achievements of science were all of them imbued with the truly religious conviction that this universe of ours is something perfect and susceptible to the rational striving for knowledge.
The spirit of the depths took my understanding and all my knowledge and placed them at the service of the inexplicable and the paradoxical. He robbed me of speech and writing for everything that was not in his service, namely the melting together of sense and nonsense, which produces the supreme meaning.
Even a scientist is a human being, and it is quite natural that he, like others, hates the things he cannot explain and thus falls victim to the common illusion that what we know today represents the highest summit of knowledge.
Most people confuse self-knowledge with knowledge of their conscious ego personalities.
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.