Quotes about imagination
imagination limits probability
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. Thomas Huxley
imagination painting ifs
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry Thomas Cole
imagination world facts
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. Thomas Sowell
imagination society problem
The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.
imagination soul crowds
A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! Robert Montgomery
imagination force forces-of-nature
Imagination is a force of nature. Saul Bellow
imagination may imagine
What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.
imagination accomplishment enough
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
imagination mind limits
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. Rod Serling
imagination curiosity energy
Curiosity is the main energy. Robert Rauschenberg
imagination rooms
I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
imagination notion primaries
The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
imagination
Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination Rob Pike
imagination fantasy concentration
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets. Rob Lowe
imagination active
I've always had an active imagination. Rickie Lee Jones
imagination
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was. Richard Ford
imagination people sophisticated
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. Robert Doisneau
imagination kind daydreaming
If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace. Robert Duvall
imagination compare pure
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination. Roald Dahl
imagination wish serious
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
imagination profound suffering
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore. Rob Bell
imagination darkness feelings
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend. Richard Rohr
imagination religion poetic
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. Richard Dawkins
imagination acting stills
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that Robin Wright
imagination music-love competent
I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent. Vikram Seth
imagination ungrateful mind
The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them. Rose Tremain
imagination expectations design
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised. Samuel Johnson
imagination existence
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
imagination expectations arrogance
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.
imagination decision comedy
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I’m basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions, Rufus Sewell
imagination protein modernism
Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination. Robert Hughes
imagination fancy judgment
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
imagination world true-things
Imagination is the only true thing in the world! Sarah Orne Jewett