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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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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 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.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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.
