Quotes about imagination




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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

Mccartney, Paul on imagination    Share


"We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment."

Mcdonald, John on imagination    Share

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money."

Mencken, H. L. on imagination    Share

"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."

Meredith, George on imagination    Share

"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."

Miller, Henry on imagination    Share

"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."

Morrison, Alex on imagination    Share

"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."

Nabokov, Vladimir on imagination    Share

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

Newton, Sir Isaac on imagination
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"It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income."

Orr, Leonard on imagination    Share

"Imagination decides everything."

Pascal, Blaise on imagination    Share

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world."

Pascal, Blaise on imagination    Share

"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"

Pavese, Cesare on imagination    Share

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

Peters, Thomas J. on imagination    Share

"Everything you can imagine is real."

Picasso, Pablo on imagination
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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

Poe, Edgar Allan on imagination
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"It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images."

Pound, Ezra on imagination    Share

"Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much."

Proust, Marcel on imagination    Share

"I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money."

Rainbow, George Weiss on imagination
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"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."

Richards, Mary Caroline on imagination    Share

"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."

Ruskin, John on imagination
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"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

Ruskin, John on imagination    Share

"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind."

Ruskin, John on imagination    Share

"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"

Sade, Marquis De on imagination    Share

"How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold."

Sade, Marquis De on imagination    Share

"Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks."

Saying on imagination    Share

"Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities."

Schuller, Robert H. on imagination    Share

"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."

Schwartz, Robert L on imagination    Share

"Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself."

Serling, Rod on imagination    Share

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."

Shaw, George Bernard on imagination
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"People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories."

Shaw, P.K. on imagination    Share

"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on imagination    Share

"When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience."

Speare, Grace on imagination    Share

"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."

Stevens, Wallace on imagination    Share

"The imagination is man's power over nature."

Stevens, Wallace on imagination    Share

"By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true."

Success Magazine on imagination    Share

"I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?"

Thoreau, Henry David on imagination
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