The Imagination Quotes
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.
The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.
The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.
When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.
But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.
Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination.
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.
Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.
Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.
I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.