When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to
the conclusion that the gift of read more

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to
the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than
my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the read more

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

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.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

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.

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.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling read more

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.