Imagination Quotes

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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life… — Plato
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. — Mary McCarthy
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. — Arthur Wing Pinero
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. — Franklin Pierce Adams
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. — Joseph Joubert
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. — Alexander Chase
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. — Daniel Bell
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however,… — Sofia Kovalevskaya
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination. — Lionel Stander
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think… — Thomas Kinkade
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or… — John Cameron
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was… — Algernon Blackwood
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He… — James Welch
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my… — Margaret Mahy
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. — Felix Bloch
He brought imagination to the story of the Creation. — Harvey Keitel
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination. — Rob Walton

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