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Imagination Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
- 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…
- He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
- We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for…
- The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other…
- As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the…
More Imagination Quotes
- 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