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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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from read more
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.
And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination read more
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only read more
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
