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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried 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.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
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.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.