Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Schultz

I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

Bertrand Russell

If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time.

Bertrand Russell

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Claudia Rankine

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Geraldine Brooks

That was a wonderful void to let imagination work.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

James Madison

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

John Dos Passos

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

John O'Donohue

Everything in the world of soul has a deep desire and longing for visible form; this is exactly where the power of the imagination lives.

John O'Donohue

When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so that you can begin to see.

John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.

John Dewey

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

John B. S. Haldane

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Joan Miro

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

Joan of Arc

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

Francois Truffaut

Life has more imagination than we do.

Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

Edward Dahlberg

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

Edward Dahlberg

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

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.

Joseph Addison

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.

Josef Albers

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.

Jose Padilha

Usually I say I have no imagination.

Kevin Spacey

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

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.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

Lord Kelvin

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.