Imagination Quotes

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it,… — Noam Chomsky
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by… — Jonathan Swift
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination. — George Bernard Shaw
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier,… — Cesar Chavez
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing… — Washington Irving
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. — Gelett Burgess
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me. — George Santayana
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity… — George Santayana
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. — George Henry Lewes
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The… — Albert Einstein
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed. — Mark Twain

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