L. Frank Baum Quotes

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

Imagination - that's the future for us.