Imagines Quotes

120 quotes by 107 authors

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard… — Theodore Martin
Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are. — Dolly Parton
Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was. — John O'Donohue
God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind. — Peter Shepherd
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the… — George Eliot
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines… — Samuel Johnson
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before. — Paul Harvey
One works because I suppose it is the most interesting thing one knows to do. The days one works are the best days. On the… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power… — Vanna Bonta
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place… — George Friedman
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. — Malcolm Gladwell
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted… — Terry Eagleton
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently… — Baruch Spinoza
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. — Lance Armstrong
Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. — Joyce Carol Oates
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder… — Umberto Eco

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