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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.
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
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Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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Reason is intuition's servant.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
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The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.
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I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it.
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Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant.
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Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
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How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology?
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Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.
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A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.
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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.