Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing,… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I am as one Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height, And having gained what to the upcast eye The summit's point… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty,… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the… — Friedrich Paulus Copy Share Image
The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
