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Imagination Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
- Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to…
- Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess
- Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his…
More Imagination Quotes
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release?… — Nellie Bly
- Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a… — Terry Brooks
- That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. — Dan Brown
- There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton