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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.
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.
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.
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but read more
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.
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.
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.]
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
