Quotes about imagination
imagination earth wonder
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders... Mark Twain
imagination sometimes
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
imagination avant-garde natural-elements
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved. Martin Filler
imagination feelings way
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling. Marquis de Sade
imagination pleasure arise
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
imagination fiction literature
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
imagination atheism take-me-as-i-am
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
imagination too-much housewife
I have too much imagination to be a housewife Marilyn Monroe
imagination atheism demonstration
Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.
imagination limits boundaries
The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe. Paul Myers
imagination england alarmists
the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist. Martha Gellhorn
imagination bitterness would-be
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
imagination care use
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care. Mark Haddon
imagination long house
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. Maria Callas
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.
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
imagination
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 healthy mind
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy. John Ruskin
imagination trying noble
In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.
imagination waste rooms
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination. Norman Douglas
imagination ardent
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
imagination excuse truth-is
The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination. Nolan Bushnell
imagination young clear
When you are young your imagination is so clear. Nina Blackwood
imagination maple-syrup limits
We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations. Misha Collins