Imagination Quotes

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I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money. — Unknown Author
Books allowed my imagination to take flight - and it hasn't landed yet. — Unknown Author
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: It fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes… — Terry Pratchett
Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination — Marcel Proust
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may… — Bible
Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our… — Eugene Ionesco
Why? Because I believe I will. If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff… — Ruth Gordon
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being… — James Dean
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus — Mark Twain
Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks — Proverb
He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty — Bible
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed… — Niccolo Machiavelli
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a… — Jean Giraudoux
Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to… — Ambrose Bierce
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' — George Bernard Shaw
Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught,… — Christine Anderson
The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake — Leonardo Da Vinci
To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. — Luigi Barzini
In literature and art memory is a synonyme for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. — Robert Aris Willmott
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought. — Unknown Author

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