"Imagination decides everything...." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.”

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

“What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is thesewants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtainfrom you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.”

“Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.”

“Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.”

“[...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big and then work hard to reach those dreams. Too often, our children spend hours playing Playstation without ever finding out how to build Playstation. They watch television but never wonder how it's put together. They surf web page after web page on the Internet, but are never taught how to design one.”

“In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.”

“To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.”

“The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.”