Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Spacey

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Norman Vincent Peale

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Ellen Glasgow

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ...

Eric Ries

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

Hermann Hesse

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

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

Heath Ledger

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.

Helen Mirren

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.

Hayley Atwell

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Napoleon Hill

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.

Napoleon Hill

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

Napoleon Hill

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Napoleon Hill

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination governs the world.

Northrop Frye

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

Northrop Frye

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Northrop Frye

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

Northrop Frye

My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

Oriana Fallaci

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

Oliver Sacks

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

Mason Cooley

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Mason Cooley

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

Mason Cooley

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

Michael Chabon

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Michio Kaku

In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

Mark Rothko

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.