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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Flight without feathers is not easy.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.