Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

Everything you can imagine is real. -Picasso.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!