
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Topic: Imagination, Knowledge
- Location: Yosemite National Park
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
