Imagination Quotes

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is… — Lord Byron
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Seneca the Elder
In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues… — Herman Bavinck
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. — Alice Morse Earle
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination… — Charles Horton Cooley
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want… — John Dos Passos
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the… — Walter Scott
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe… — Alice Morse Earle
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime… — Francis Cabot
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.... — Joyce Cary
The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility. — Ian K. Smith
Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity. — Richard L. Peterson
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before… — Walter Hagen
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries. — Karl Pearson
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must… — Frank Herbert
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. — William Hazlitt
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that… — Raoul Vaneigem
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag

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