Imagination Quotes
4096 quotes by 2387 authors
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It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal…
— Abbie Hoffman
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Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
— Nick Hornby
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A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.
— Joseph Black
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The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense, cease to exist--for…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
— Alister E. McGrath
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The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.
— Myla Goldberg
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Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability…
— David Geffen
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There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of…
— Corliss Lamont
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I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
— Sean Parker
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Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of…
— Bill Moyers
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Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and…
— Paul Bley
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The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it captured the imagination…
— Paul Bley
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A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
— Thelonious Monk
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The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade,…
— Antonio Damasio
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Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange,…
— H. Rider Haggard
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More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
— Harriet Martineau
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