“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”– Alfred North Whitehead Related Quotes “Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.”– David Hare “The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.”– Irving Babbitt “To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.”– Lawrence Hargrave