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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.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... read more
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their read more
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
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.
