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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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
To build castles in Spain.
To build 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.
These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
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.]
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.
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.
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.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real 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.
