Quotes about Imagination
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.
by L. Frank Baum (Author, American , born in 1856) keywords: ages, america, brought, civilization, columbus, dark, discover, electricity, franklin, imagination, led, mankind, present, state , through There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
by Edmund Burke (Statesman, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: act, boundary, feelings, imagination, influence, men, none, passions , under To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: advance, angle, creative, imagination, marks, new, old, possibilities, problems, questions, raise, real, regard, requires , science It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
by Paul Gauguin (Artist, French , born in 1848) keywords: assigns, beware, block, color, every, eye, fixed, ignorance, object, stumbling , unchangeable 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.
by Theodor Geisel (Writer, American , born in 1904) keywords: brain, cells, enables, end, fantasy, ingredient, laugh, life, living, looking, necessary, nonsense, realities, telescope, through, up, wakes, way, which , wrong Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
by Theodor Geisel (Writer, American , born in 1904) keywords: high, left, low, oh, only, right, think, thinks, try , up I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
by Ursula K. Le Guin (Writer, American , born in 1929) keywords: child, doubt, eradicated, grow, imagination, suppressed, truly, up , would