Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination. — Fay Godwin
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition.… — Edward Kasner
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a… — Doris Grumbach
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and… — Henry David Thoreau
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.... — Vernon Howard
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical… — Freeman Dyson
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no… — Joseph Conrad
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is… — W. W. Sawyer
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge… — David Eugene Smith
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect. — Henry David Thoreau
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my… — Mary Wesley
My final coaching point of the day: It's my contention that in any given moment one lives one's life in one of two ways, either… — Unknown Author
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough… — Wadah Khanfar
The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains… — Fred Bear
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to… — Judith Krantz
The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life… — Stephen Vizinczey
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is for this reason… — Robert Macfarlane
For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination. — Hugo Pratt
As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When the way is… — John O'Donohue
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake. — John O'Callaghan
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the… — Eduard Hanslick

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