The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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.

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.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but read more

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on

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.

Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.

Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.