691 quotes found
“I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
“Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”
“Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
“The imagination of a boy is healthy and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between in which the soul is in ferment the character undecided the way of life uncer...”
“His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.”
“Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.”
“Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.”
“To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.”
“It is good to know the truth but it is better to speak of palm trees.”
“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty justice and happiness which is everything in this world.”
“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
