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Imagination Quotes by George Eliot
- The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
- Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
- But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge…
- Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
- Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms…
- The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are…
- You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery…
- We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
More Imagination Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- 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
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard
- I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana