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What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.
"What is imagination? It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal."— Ada Lovelace
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Meaning of this quote
Imagination is praised as a faculty that expands experience beyond immediate limits and connects it with lasting ideals.
Key takeaway:
Cultivate imagination while staying attentive to evidence and reality.
Origin of the quote
Letter on imagination, early January 1841; collected in Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers.
Who actually said this?
Longer quotation includes at least should do so after renders earth tolerable; supplied text removes this qualification.
