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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.
Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.
Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.
When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with read more
When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold
My beautiful castles in Spain!
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled
him to run, though not to soar.
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled
him to run, though not to soar.
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.
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.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he read more
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces read more
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
