Imagination quotes

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Apathy 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.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.