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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Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the read more
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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.
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.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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.
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
