Imaginings Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward…
— Walt Whitman
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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
— Ken Robinson
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Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
— Philip Roth
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results -…
— Denis Waitley
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Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.
— Charles Tart
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the…
— Philip Roth
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If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is…
— Russell Crowe
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This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.
— Benedict Anderson
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Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it…
— Ravi Ravindra
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Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span…
— Elizabeth Aston
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are…
— Emile Durkheim
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Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is…
— Julia Sweeney
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You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of…
— Oscar Wilde
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One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and…
— Dale Carnegie
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It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how…
— Humphrey Bogart
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Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.
— Walter Russell
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Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings.
— Jocelyn Murray
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