You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

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.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks read more

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real
advance in science.