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Imagination Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
- The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
- The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
- There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
- Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
- What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
- Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to…
- The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
- That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
- The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there…
- 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,…
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom…
- We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
- Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by…
- Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
- Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
- There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
- There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
- There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some shake of the imagination.
- Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man
- The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
- That work is ever more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee,…
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- 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