Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Topic: Imagination, Knowledge
- Location: Nevada, Reno
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
