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Imagination Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
- Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
- He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
- Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
- Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the…
- I love those who yearn for the impossible.
- Few people have the imagination for reality.
- One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
- Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
- No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the…
- I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power.…
- The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to…
- There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
- There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily…
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