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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than read more
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
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.
