Imagination Quotes

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need… — Albert Einstein
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. — William Godwin
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I… — Wilferd Peterson
Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long… — Joseph Wood Krutch
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination,… — Leo Tolstoy
I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no… — Nikola Tesla
The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination. — Thomas Church
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership. — Ambrose Bierce
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's… — Philip Roth
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. — Ambrose Bierce
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to… — George Polya
Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow… — Susanna Tamaro
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race.… — Arthur Helps
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on… — Baron d'Holbach
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure… — ZoÃ« Heller
Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form. — William Walker Atkinson
Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on… — Thomas Merton
Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside… — Wilferd Peterson
Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that… — Wilferd Peterson
Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches. — Wilferd Peterson
Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into the light of… — Wilferd Peterson
Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in your… — Wilferd Peterson
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give… — Henry Ward Beecher

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