Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Imagination.

The repository contains 39 quotes in the category “Imagination.”
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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955

If a man write a better book, or make a better mouse-trap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

Innovation is hard to schedule.

Dan Fylstra

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Ralph W. Sockman
1889 — 1970

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Dr. Ralph Gerard
1900 — 1974

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein
1874 — 1946

The man who never in his mind and thoughts traveled to heaven is no artist.

William Blake
1757 — 1827

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
1900 — 1986

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

T. H. Huxley
1825 — 1895

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo
1802 — 1885

One who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.

Proverb

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley
1894 — 1963

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900 — 1944

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

Francis Bacon
1561 — 1626

The reason many people are lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.

MAD Magazine

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker
1893 — 1967

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