Imagines Quotes

120 quotes by 107 authors

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Anybody can do anything that he imagines. — Henry Ford
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. — George Bernard Shaw
Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his… — Abraham Lincoln
When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. — Theodore Martin
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place… — Ernest Hello
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or… — John Green
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. — Paracelsus
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he… — Louis Aragon
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs — Friedrich Nietzsche
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and worst fears usually… — Ralph Lombreglia
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines. — James Lane Allen
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration. — Samuel Johnson
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines. — Hallie Ephron
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known,… — Sophocles
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… — Samuel Johnson
The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and… — Ferdinand Foch

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