Imagination and Knowledge

Einstein said, 'Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand' , which is usually shortened to "Imagination is more important than knowledge". However, what I believe is imagination coupled with actions will move mountains.

In my opinion, this is quite true. If you recalled a lot of successful people, used to have ideas that are considered wild. I know of 2 examples. Fred SmithFed Ex andColonel Sanders of KFC fame (yeah, that white bearded, cane wielding, white coat-ed grandpa).

The question comes back again to one very broad topic of debate. Nature or Nurture? Basically, the argument is whether a person is born with talents or are those talents learned.

Still I believe, when you strongly believe in your dreams and you badly want the dream to come true, knowledge will be of no stumbling blocks to you. What I mean is that you will do all you can do to achieve your dreams with ease because you are passionate about it. However, one must take care as thin line seperates passion from obsession. When you are obsessed with your dream, its bad. You will do practically anything, including bad things, just to achieve your dreams. For example, in pursuit of financial wealth, people becomes obsessed with work and money. They ignores everything else, like family, friends and social life. Whats the use of acheving your dreams but losing everything else? The question then becomes, is your sacrifice worth it?

Coming back to the topic, why imagination is important, is because they help us solve problems. Imagination encourages creativity. I dont know about others, but my dad and I usually gets solution to an answer when we were not seriously thinking at all, like when we are taking a shower or brushing our teeth. I think the reason is because, during this time, we are not thinking about the box, the constricting forces to our solution. We let our imagination run free. After some discussion with my dad, I realise that usually, at these times, we were thinking about solutions possible and not about the problem. Understanding the required solution stems from clearly understanding the problem, but usually, we just think about all possible solution. Once we know a solution we want, we start to think about the approach to that solution. Thats how usually we achieve a solution to problems.

Well, in closing, imagination and knowledge, hand in hand will enable you to acheve your dreams. whatever it is.

Have a good one.

Ivan