Imagination Quote by Isaac Newton

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”

— Sir Isaac Newton

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend…

— Maimonides

In order to understand the interrelation of truth and falsehood in life, a man must understand falsehood in himself, the constant incessant lies he…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion…

— John Dewey

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty…

— William Graham Sumner

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

— Baruch Spinoza

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

— Meister Eckhart

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

— Epictetus

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find…

— George Henry Lewes

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky