Imagination Quotes

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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature. — Immanuel Kant
I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much vain expense, and… — Philip Larkin
Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller. — Gary Hamel
For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history. — Gary Hamel
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. — David Hume
Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable. — John Masefield
The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition. — Charles Nicolle
Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor. — Alex Faickney Osborn
Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement. — Alex Faickney Osborn
Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless. — C. Northcote Parkinson
I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the… — Tom Peters
Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece. — Lady Margaret Sackville
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an… — Friedrich Schiller
When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device… — Nikola Tesla
Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. — Alfred North Whitehead
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality. — William Wordsworth
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. — William Butler Yeats
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image. — Elbert Hubbard
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. — William Butler Yeats

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