Imagination Quotes

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It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation… — Richard Riley
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures,… — Elizabeth Bowen
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest… — Rudolf Arnheim
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. — George Scialabba
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute… — Gregory of Nyssa
Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What's real has love at its heart; the universe… — Fred Alan Wolf
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and… — Jose Bergamin
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to… — Thomas Paine
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple… — Samuel Ullman
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. — Elizabeth Bowen
...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with… — Charlton Ogburn
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. — Emile M. Cioran
Memory feeds imagination. — Amy Tan

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