“You imagination is more important than your knowledge.”
Mike Murdock (1946) American televangelist
Variant: Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge
“You imagination is more important than your knowledge.”
Mike Murdock (1946) American televangelist
William H. Starbuck (1934) American academic
Source: Learning by knowledge‐intensive firms," 1992, p. 715
“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
David Bohm (1917–1992) American theoretical physicist
As quoted in New Scientist (February 1993), p. 42
Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
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
Misattributed
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
James Stephens book The Crock of Gold
The Crock of Gold (Charleston: BiblioBazaar, [1912] 2006) p. 13.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
“living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.”
Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)