The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing read more

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the read more

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be read more

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.