Imagination Quotes

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Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin
Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. — Alexander Cockburn
When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination. — Debbie Ford
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant… — Friedrich Schiller
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the… — Stefan Zweig
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which… — J. William Fulbright
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an… — Thomas Traherne
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and… — Adam Sedgwick
The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity… — Albert Einstein
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. — John Ruskin
I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of… — Andy Wilkinson
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. — T Bone Burnett
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination,… — Peter Selgin
Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers… — Shana Alexander
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts… — Immanuel Kant
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. — Camille Paglia
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the… — Oscar Wilde

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