I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanIt is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare PaveseFor imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell MaltzAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceSomethings are best left to the imagination and some things that can be spoken are better off not said.
Lori Ann FelkerI have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
Claire DanesTake the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard BaruchTo regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace StevensWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainAnd by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia PlathHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry JamesI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellyA vague recollection fills my mind, an image dazzling, but undefined, like the memory of a gorgeous dream. It crowds my brain confusedly, but will not stay. It changes like the tremulous sunshine on the wave, till imagination itself is dazzled, bewildered, overpowered.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowApathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold ToynbeeOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliThe Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Mary BatesonEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyIt takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David BaileyOn Wales losing 28-9 against Australia: 'No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking'
JPR WilliamsFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheOut with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia Few things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseIn real cricket, the player who has developed imagination and skill mkaes the game, but in the one day match it is the other way round. The match dictates to the player.
Brian CloseWorks of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOur democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people... The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
Al GoreThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. [What does modern art too then?]
Eduard HanslickIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph AddisonAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerAn opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria CallasA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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