Imagination Quotes - Page 4

• Imagination rules the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Positive, War, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.107, Fireship Press

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• A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Success, Dream, Business

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• To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

  Andre Breton

  Betrayal, Mean, Justice

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• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Nature, Travel

  'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

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• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, Passion, Creativity

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.422

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• 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?

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Joy, Spurs

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• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Philosophy, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

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• Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Writing, Might, Hours

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Block, Ignorance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Stupid, Equality

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1996). “Unlocking the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

  Yehuda Berg

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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• All i have in my life is my imagination

  Woody Allen

  Life Is, My Imagination

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

  Dean Koontz

  Inspirational, Judgment, Enough

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.16, Bantam

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• Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

  Peter Kline

  Skills, Focus, Important

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• Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Enthusiasm, Height

  John Dryden (1968). “Saggi critici”

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• In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Sorry, Sight

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

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Suffering

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• The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Notion, Primaries

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• There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

  Sean O Faolain

  Reality, Intense, Form

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• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Understanding, Matter, Poor

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

  Azar Nafisi

  Order, Needs, Imagine

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. February 5, 2004.

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• Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Knowledge, Fool, Pedants

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• For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

  C. S. Lewis

  Causes, Reason, Metaphor

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.265, Cambridge University Press

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• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

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