Anatole France

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Voltaire

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Mark Twain

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

- Mark Twain, author

Eric Schmidt

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Eric Schmidt, engineer and businessman

Tryon Edwards

"If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others."

- Tryon Edwards, theologian

John Quincy Adams

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

- John Quincy Adams, former president of the USA

Anatole France

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Benjamin Disraeli

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician

Socrates

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

- Socrates, ancient Greek philosopher

Frank Herbert

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."

- Frank Herbert, author

Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein, physicist