The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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.

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the read more

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
a madman is not cured by another running read more

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of
virtuous living.