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.

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.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

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!

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the read more

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.