“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
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imagination
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Voices on imagination
“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
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“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”
“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination; all compact.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.”
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Alice in Wonderland
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”
“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”