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Imagination Quotes by John Dewey
- Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because…
- An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
- The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize…
- Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for…
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
More Imagination Quotes
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release?… — Nellie Bly
- Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a… — Terry Brooks
- That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. — Dan Brown
- There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton