We Imagine Quotes

120 We Imagine quotes by 104 unique authors

I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk.… — Thomas Merton
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety… — Siri Hustvedt
We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
We are so obsessed with the Net and technology that we forget the message... We imagine to be able to do anything, and our software… — Neville Brody
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.... — Vernon Howard
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her… — Seneca the Younger
We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know… — Unknown Author
We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting… — Paulo Coelho
The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all… — John Wyndham
We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only ‘naturals’ can acquire certain skills. We imagine that we… — Robert Twigger
Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are… — Wayne Muller
We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in… — Mark Nepo
The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is… — Thomas Merton
Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather… — Robert Fulghum
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free. — Elizabeth Bishop
The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we… — Lorenzo Scupoli
The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend?… — Benjamin Franklin
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to… — Carl Jung
When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds. — Malala Yousafzai
In times of prosperity we are apt to forget God; we imagine it does not matter whether we recognise Him or not. As long as… — Oswald Chambers
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention. — Alison Gopnik
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so. — William Hazlitt
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants… — William Hazlitt
To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly… — Meister Eckhart

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