Quotes About Imagination

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

The true object of human life is play.

The brain is wider than the sky.

What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.

Your world is as big as you make it.

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.