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.
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The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I read more
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
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.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
