Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Imaginative thinking can beautify even the starkest facts, making them bloom like flowers on a cliff.
- In plain terms
- Creativity adds beauty to hard facts.
- What can you take from it?
- Use imagination to transform ordinary information.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When does imagination enhance versus distract?
- How can beauty aid understanding?
Another view
Too much fantasy can obscure truth.
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