What is more important, imagination or knowledge? This is an eternal question. Knowledge is information that we receive thanks to the experience of our environment and our own experience at the moment. Information about everything discovered or experienced is knowledge. But imagination is needed to put that information together to come up with new results and solutions, that's why it's more important in my opinion.
The famous physicist Albert Einstein once 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”. And I support his point of view.
Knowledge, no doubt has a role to play. Without knowledge, imagination does not have any substance to work with. Imagination puts together already available information in a manner to come up with new solutions to new problems. Without these two working in parallel, nothing new could have been created.
For example, all of us must have surely come across that in school we all knew one guy or girl who would mug up the whole book from top to bottom. No question would be left in the book which was not known to him or her. And there would be another guy or girl who would not toil so much. He or she would only understand how to solve the questions, the methodology, and the reasoning behind all of it. Let’s say a few questions were asked which were not in the book. The first guy/girl would cry foul over not being able to solve the questions since they were ‘out of syllabus’. While the other guy/girl, though slower in speed, would solve all the questions (even the new ones) and get a better score than the latter. Now the question arises, who among the above two is truly educated? Definitely not the rote learner! This points to the fact that imagination and creativity trump knowledge in solving new problems. Knowledge can get you through old problems easily, but only imagination can help you tackle new problems.
In light of the above discussion, it can be concluded that knowledge is definitely required, but knowledge in isolation cannot help us. To make true progress in life, knowledge must be accompanied by imagination. These rules apply to every sphere of our lives. This is why I believe that imagination is more important than knowledge.