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.
Interpretation
Imagination expands our possibilities beyond current knowledge.
This quote by Albert Einstein underscores the significance of imagination over knowledge. While knowledge is confined to what we currently comprehend, imagination has no boundaries, allowing us to envision new ideas, possibilities, and understandings that extend far beyond our present limitations.
In practice
In a speech about innovation, you could say, 'Remember, imagination is more important than knowledge.'
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.
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