Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Quotes

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

What I can't create I don't understand

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

True understanding is the spur of genius

Ideas come from curiosity.

The more you know, the better you can imagine.

Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.