Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Imagination
  • Judgment
  • Disciplined