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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.]
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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 see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
In my mind's eye, Horatio.