Quotes about imagination
imagination seems effects
Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect. Michel de Montaigne
imagination people miracle
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
imagination wife president
We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.
imagination fields labor
Imagination labors best in distant fields. Mark Twain
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 experience poor
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Havelock Ellis
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Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. Harry Emerson Fosdick
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 mind slides
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. Marcel Proust
imagination giving trying
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
imagination people atmosphere
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.
imagination perfection support
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius. Joseph Addison
imagination world mystery
Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it. Josef Albers
imagination
Usually I say I have no imagination. Jose Padilha
imagination important behinds
While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination. Kevin Spacey
imagination als taste
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
imagination simple-life imagine
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
imagination obstacles power-of-positive-thinking
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale
imagination novel
For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ... Ellen Glasgow
imagination historical quality
The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations. Eric Ries
imagination knife logic mind
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. Rabindranath Tagore
imagination world exaltation
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. Hermann Hesse
imagination remember strict
Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.
imagination people curiosity
People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
imagination scratches film
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch. Heath Ledger
imagination world saws
I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end. Helen Mirren
imagination age stories
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way. Hayley Atwell
imagination people healthy
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. Henry Williamson
imagination taste literature
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.