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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.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
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.
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.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
