Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed… — David Berlinski
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we… — Gaston Bachelard
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but… — Gaston Bachelard
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study… — Gaston Bachelard
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the… — Gaston Bachelard
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even… — Sri Chinmoy
In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in… — Joey Reiman
First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory. — Robin Sharma
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true. — Sydney J. Harris
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity. — Saint Augustine
Imagine the possibilities! — Ralph Marston
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — Paul Claudel
Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to… — Melissa Etheridge
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word… — Marsilio Ficino
Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads… — Marianne Moore
I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me. — Joseph Conrad
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. — John Ruskin
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow… — Edmund Burke
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. — Cyril Connolly
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but… — Charles Lamb
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal,… — Charles Dickens
Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing — Jim Fowler
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. — Winston Churchill
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. — William Blackstone

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