Maria Edgeworth Quotes

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

Art does not tolerate reason.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

The more you reason the less you create.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

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

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.