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Quote |
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| Imagination | "Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed." | Addison, Joseph |
| Imagination | "The man who has no imagination has no wings." | Ali, Muhammad |
| Imagination | "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." | Bacon, Sir Francis |
| Imagination | "Really we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature." | Baitaillon, Jean |
| Imagination | "The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person." | Barron, Frank |
| Imagination | "Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity." | Baum, L. Frank |
| Imagination | "Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." | Baum, L. Frank |
| Imagination | "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." | Burke, Edmund |
| Imagination | "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards." | Carroll, Lewis |
| Imagination | "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." | Chesterton, Gilbert K. |
| Imagination | "Live out of your imagination, not your history." | Covey, Stephen R. |
| Imagination | "The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination." | Dickinson, Emily |
| Imagination | "Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face." | Finley, James D. |
| Imagination | "To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all." | France, Anatole |
| Imagination | "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block." | Gauguin, Paul |
| Imagination | "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." | Geisel, Theodor |
| Imagination | "My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!" | Geisel, Theodor |
| Imagination | "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" | Geisel, Theodor |
| Imagination | "Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them." | Gerard, Dr. Ralph |
| Imagination | "I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant." | Guin, Ursula K. Le |
| Imagination | "To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." | Kneller, George |
| Imagination | "When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." | Kupferberg, Tuli |
| Imagination | "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica." | Leacock, Stephen B. |
| Imagination | "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." | London, Jack |
| Imagination | "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." | Marden, Orison Swett |
| Imagination | "Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it." | Michals, Duane |
| Imagination | "I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see." | Michals, Duane |
| Imagination | "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." | Michelangelo, |
| Imagination | "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." | Patton, Gen George S. |
| Imagination | "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." | Patton, Gen George S. |
| Imagination | "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Imagination | "Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." | Podhoretz, Norman |
| Imagination | "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." | Poe, Edgar Allan |
| Imagination | "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." | Sagan, Carl |
| Imagination | "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." | Saint-Exupery, Antoine de |
| Imagination | "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact." | Shakespeare, William |
| Imagination | "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." | Thoreau, Henry David |
| Imagination | "I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally." | Trillin, Calvin |
| Imagination | "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." | Twain, Mark |
| Imagination | "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." | Weil, Simone |
| Imagination | "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures." | West, Jessamyn |
| Imagination | "Some stories are true that never happened." | Wiesel, Elie |
| Imagination | "People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind." | Yeats, William Butler |
| Imagination | "I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel." | Zarlenga, Peter Nivio |
