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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.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
[Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition read more
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
[Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et
n'a pas de pieds.]
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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.
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.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
