“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”
Source: The Valley of Fear
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Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes

“Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere.”
Vol. VI, par. 286
Collected Papers (1931-1958)

Kiedy miałem kilka lat, często podchodziłem do drzwi pokoju, w którym akurat ćwiczyła mama, wsłuchiwałem się w dźwięki i wyobrażałem sobie tę muzykę.
A little cellist from Krakow conquers the world, warszawa.naszemiasto.pl, 2008-04-02, Polish http://warszawa.naszemiasto.pl/archiwum/1664386,maly-wiolonczelista-z-krakowa-podbija-swiat,id,t.html,

Letter to Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817)
Letters (1817–1820)

“My love is my soul's imagination…
how do I love you… imagine.”

“Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.”

Source: Autosuggestion : My method (2014), Chapter II. The role of imagination : About the "Dominance of the imagination over the will".

“Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.”