Imagination Quotes - Page 11

• Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Player, Ordinary

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• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

  Maria Montessori

  Beauty, Science, Needs

  "Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals". Book by Maria Mitchell, p. 186, 1896.

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• The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "Pensées".

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• The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

  Brenda Ueland

  Happiness, Creativity, Long

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspirational, Art, Fire

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• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Children, Way

  Sam Levenson (1969). “Sex and the Single Child”

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• Imagination is the air of mind.

  Philip James Bailey

  Air, Mind

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.73

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• Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Men, Wheels, Fantasy

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• Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

  Louis Aragon

  Inspirational, Students, Imagine

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• A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Strong, Opportunity

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

  Mark Strand

  Lying, Want, Imagine

  Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Real, Believe, Inspiration

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

  Simone Weil

  Real, History, Needs

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Attitude, Character

  Albert Einstein's speech made in honor of Thomas Mann, when Mann was given the Einstein Prize given by the Jewish Forum (January 1939), as quoted in Abraham Pais "Einstein Lived Here" (p. 214), 1994.

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• Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.

  Peter London

  Mind, Quality, World

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

  Max Planck

  Creativity, Ideas, Vivid Imagination

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• The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love Life, Favors, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Strong Women, Heart

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• Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from them. It began with the invention of a possible world, or a fragment thereof, which was then compared by experimentation with the real world. And it was this constant dialogue between imagination and experiment that allowed one to form an increasingly fine-grained conception of what is called reality.

  Francois Jacob

  Real, Drawing, Progress

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• I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Wings, Mind, Desire

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Vivid Imagination, Understanding

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• There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Leadership, Inspiration, Science

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• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Teaching, Meditation

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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