Paul Scott Quotes

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Without theory we can only copy.

One must be an inventor to read well.

The more you know, the better you can imagine.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

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

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

To understand is to invent.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

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.

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

What I can't create I don't understand

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

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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.