To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the crit

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. – Quintilian

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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. – Terry Brooks

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. – Blaise Pascal

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