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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Knowledge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, and philosopher and one of the central figures of English Romanticism. This page collects quotes attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    “Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.”

  • Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    “Reason is the power of universal and necessary convictions.”

  • Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    “What I most love in another is what I do not understand.”

  • Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    “The dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.”

  • Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

    “No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”