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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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.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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.
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.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
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.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
