“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
Variant: Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge
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Source: Learning by knowledge‐intensive firms," 1992, p. 715

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
As quoted in New Scientist (February 1993), p. 42

David Sayre, while in a panel discussion with Hopper, as quoted in Management and the Computer of the Future (1962) by Sloan School of Management, p. 277
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“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
The Crock of Gold (Charleston: BiblioBazaar, [1912] 2006) p. 13.

1920s, Viereck interview (1929)

“living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)