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.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

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.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

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.

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

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

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.

I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.