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Imagination Quotes by Adam Smith
- This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
- Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.…
- The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
More Imagination Quotes
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. — Dan Brown
- The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always… — Thomas Paine
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release?… — Nellie Bly