Quotes about imagination
imagination experience fairs
We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced. Henry David Thoreau
imagination use never-forget
The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.
imagination political denial
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination. Jean Genet
imagination energy purpose
You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose. Esther Hicks
imagination imagine creator
You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.
imagination coward
Imagination makes cowards of us all.
imagination vision perception
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. Henri Bergson
imagination weak proportion
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. Giambattista Vico
imagination risk enthusiasm
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. James Broughton
imagination empty has-beens
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination. Jack Williamson
imagination people size
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. J. R. R. Tolkien
imagination perception ingredients
Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself. Immanuel Kant
imagination levels actresses
To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much. Elle Fanning
imagination release my-own
History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination. Jennifer Gilmore
imagination existential realizing
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. Jean-Paul Sartre
imagination great-imagination
True invective requires great imagination. George William Curtis
imagination fleeting denial
What you accomplish in life is limited only by your imagination and the fear of reprisal. Life is too fleeting and unrewarding to have to live with the added anus of indignity. The denial of one's inevitable demise is what causes most of the astringent blandness in the world. When your existence ends most certainly in death, there is no such thing as 'going too far'. There are no 'lines' you should fear to cross except the finish line. Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you could do. Jim Goad
imagination fisherman should
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination Jerome K. Jerome
imagination novelists should
Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination. Jeffrey Eugenides
imagination empathy study
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
imagination curiosity five-senses
It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses? James Cameron
imagination forever secret
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. James A. Baldwin
imagination towns visitors
The town is an advertisement for itself; none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination. Christopher Isherwood
imagination soul common
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. Gaston Bachelard
imagination world thanks
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
imagination want bunch
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? Christina Aguilera
imagination regard
A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel. George Santayana
imagination vivid taste
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
imagination religion world
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.
imagination ramanujan being-true
They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them. G. H. Hardy
imagination say-anything world
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. Fyodor Dostoevsky
imagination doubt fuel
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them. George Eliot
imagination humanity might
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. Geoffrey S. Fletcher