A 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 LongfellowPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsSome people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneYou can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan FrebergLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanIt's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. [He won the Turner Prize]
Damien HirstThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Works 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 ColeridgeI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellyLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksWe are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob BronowskiAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanYou see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination
Lady MorganThere are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!
Buck HenryImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisNeither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartFor 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 MaltzThings are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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 BatesonEverything 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 AddisonImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinHe's still a relatively young captain but he shows real imagination and his fields are well thought out, it just depends, sometimes you have to stop the fours, sometimes you can let them go by [on Michael Vaughan]
Duncan FletcherImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonAn 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 HanslickA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradSometimes I even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination.
Jules VerneFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonHe 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 JamesThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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