Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is… — Anthony Storr
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever… — Frances Wright
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. — Mary Caroline Richards
There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a… — Gladys Taber
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll… — Wendy Wasserstein
When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the… — Michael Meade
What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never… — Dan Kieran
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not… — Philip Guston
I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free. — Andrew Wyeth
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active… — Andrew Wyeth
Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges… — Amelie Nothomb
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination. — Evelyn Underhill
I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm… — Teena Marie
Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid… — Ray Kurzweil
Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the… — Albert Einstein
If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to… — Jason Statham
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they… — Madeleine L'Engle
Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas. — Charlotte Bunch
To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches… — John Austin Baker
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way… — Ralph Marston
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human… — Walter Scott
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I… — Georg Brandes
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. — Sarah Fielding
Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy… — Tahir Shah

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