“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.” Continue reading
G. K. Chesterton on Imagination
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G. K. Chesterton on Imagination
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Continue reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Thoughts
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” Continue reading
Pablo Picasso on Imagination
“Everything you can imagine is real.” Continue reading
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Ideas
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” Continue reading
Lewis Carroll on Memory
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.” Continue reading
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.” Continue reading
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Science
“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Continue reading
John Russell on Sanity
“Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.” Continue reading
Tom Stoppard on Art & Imagination
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” Continue reading
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