Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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.

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.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
[Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition read more

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
[Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et
n'a pas de pieds.]

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.

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!

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge read more

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.