My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination read more

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world read more

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him read more

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge read more

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.