Imagination Quotes

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I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte. — Don King
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. — Michel de Montaigne
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. — Karl Kraus
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's… — Taisen Deshimaru
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. — Lin Yutang
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. — Robert Toth
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace. — Robert Duvall
Justice is to be found only in the imagination. — Alfred Nobel
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of… — Northrop Frye
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. — Northrop Frye
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us.… — Northrop Frye
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. — Lionel Trilling
If a manâ€™s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies… — Edward Abbey
The secret of survival is a defective imagination. — John Banville
The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination. — John Irving
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. — Ray Bradbury
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud

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