Imagination Quotes

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Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems. — Cory Booker
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say itâ€”in a way,… — Robert Pinsky
But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They… — Anton Szandor LaVey
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity,… — Robert Anton Wilson
Embrace reality by imagination. — Austin Osman Spare
What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with. — Dion Fortune
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making… — Dion Fortune
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and… — Maria Montessori
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real… — Bruce Sterling
Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination. — Ben Bernanke
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and… — Azar Nafisi
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life. — Unknown Author
The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance… — Jacques d'Amboise
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination. — Edwin Howard Armstrong
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but… — Frank Auerbach
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality… — Roald Hoffmann
An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams. — Anna Held
Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success. — Haile Selassie
What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired… — Edmund White
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self… — Adi Shankara

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