“ The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done — men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. ”
- Michael Korda- Copy
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“ Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ”
- Jacob Bronowski- Copy
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“ The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ You're going to be more creative, more innovative, and have a lot more ability to stumble into a big breakthrough. ”
- Burt Rutan- Copy
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“ Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ”
- Herman Wouk- Copy
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“ It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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“ Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. ”
- Robert Hewison- Copy
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“ For anything new to emerge there must first be a dream, an imaginative view of what might be. ”
- Robert K. Greenleaf- Copy
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“ Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. ”
- Percy Ross- Copy
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“ The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. ”
- G. M. Trevelyan- Copy
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“ Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that… ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen… ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind. ”
- Dudley Nichols- Copy
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“ One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
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