Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. — Albert Einstein

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Imagination is more important than knowledge
Posted December 5th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas
imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. — Albert Einstein
In yesterday’s blog post I was writing about the importance of a strong mind in tough situations,
because the world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. But with the right mind set we are able to turn
problems into challenges and opportunities to grow.
As the brilliant Albert Einstein said: “Imaginat ion is more import ant t han knowledge.”
Which of the 2 Types of Imagination is more important
than knowlege?
Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations
and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses.
Imagination is the work of the mind that helps create. Imagination helps provide meaning to
experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people
make sense of the world, and plays a key role in the learning process. Imagination is the faculty
through which we encounter everything. The things that we touch, see and hear coalesce into
definite forms through the processes of our imagination.
In Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich, two types of imagination are mentioned.
1. Synthetic Imagination: Utilizing old concepts, plans and ideas and arrange them into
something new.
2. Creative Imagination: This is where inspiration and tuning into subconscious minds of others
create new ideas.
Synthetic imagination and creative imagination work together to create innovation, better
concepts and ultimately the future.
Imagination is more important than knowledge in terms of innovation and breakthroughs. Applying

2. only old knowledge and accepting the status quo never leads to anything new. An open mind as
well as letting imagination dream about new things will lead to progress.
Knowledge is what is known; the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability
to use it for a specific purpose.
Imagination is more important than knowledge for society?
Knowledge builds up group developing, nevertheless
the development of new knowledge in, for instance,
the scientific researches can put at risk a group’s
very life. Imagination can test laws and also beliefs
by applying facts together in new approaches; still
shared acts of imagination have the ability to
likewise assist to empower bonds. Try fantasizing!
Create for yourself a meaningful tale of your own
invention, follow it through from start to end. Until
you are actually an expert writer you may very likely
find it exceptionally tough to prevent wandering in
to other ideas or even falling asleep. We think about
our own selves as the only creatures competent of
controlled dreaming, nevertheless really it is very
hard to retain charge unless we make our dreams Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important
public. The greatest acts of imagination– from than knowledge”
Bach’s Cello Suites or Milan Cathedral to Star Wars
or Günther van Hagen’s Bodyworlds– need not
only creation but also admiration: they depend for their impression on being known, seen and
understood within a cultural context built up over hundreds of years by thousands of people.
Was Einstein right: Imagination is more important than knowledge? As our real lives become more
challenging we seem significantly to expect imagination is more important than knowledge, yet
that pick is culture-dependent. Imagination grows when its products are highly valued. Leisure,
wealth and a degree of political stability are essentials for the freedom essential to creativity and
for the use of creative products as signals of social status.
When a civilization feels under threat, shared knowledge, honored as way of life or heritage, may
be valued more, lowering the Imagination/Knowledge ratio. Assets earlier committed to artistic
creativity may be drawn away into endeavors to shield the community or to gain knowledge about
the alterations it is experiencing, causing lowered artistic output.
That the Imagination/Knowledge ratio is culture-dependent is indeed unsurprising. Even within a

3. single society, the preferred Imagination/Knowledge ratio in any given area of intellectual activity
will depend on the field in question and on the person making the analysis.
This brings us to a different factor of the complementarity involving knowledge and imagination:
Its dynamic nature. The Imagination/Knowledge ratio changes over time. Sometimes, a new field of
the sciences, as an example, might initiate with a number of radicals (Imagination is more important
than knowledge – way more!) whose analysis is in the beginning put away as speculative. As their
way of imagining incrementally wins approval, it draws in new people at a growing pace till a
paradigm change happens and loyalty transfer wholesale from the old establishment to the new. A
period of growing security follows by which knowledge is put together (lowering
Imagination/Knowledge ratio) which supports the new ideas. Inventive production falls, stagnancy
progressively sets in. Troubles begin to come out, which are neglected by all but a few … so the
routine renews.
As for science, so for religion. Cults often begin with an act of extreme imagining with a new and
dramatic form which seems to promise solutions to previously insoluble problems. Yet cult
teachings, born in the intense independence of imagination, have the tendency to strengthen into
the constraint of dogma, causing the turndown of any information which does not conform. As
social psychologists have noted, however, the pattern of growth, stability and attrition seems to
be a fundamental one for human groups across many different fields of endeavor.
So do you think imagination is more important than knowledge?
It depends where you are at right now in life.
How to train your imagination
As a marketer you definitely need to learn how to use your imagination to find and set your goals.
Training your imagination is the first step in achieving and even setting your goals right. This is also
the reason why the first lesson of the Empower Network $15 formula is about training your
imagination.
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Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important

4. than knowledge”
I am enough of an artist to draw
freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the
world.