Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Date of birth: 1869-12-30
Date of death: 1944-03-28
Quotes number: 30
Nationality: Canadian
Profession: Economist
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
Imagination rules the world.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.