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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. |
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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.- Maxwell Maltz
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
