Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with unde

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle

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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe. – Thomas Carlyle

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Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. – Evelyn Underhill

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Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. – Bob Kane

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. – Anatole France

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. – John Muir

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