The Imagination Quotes

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Imagination can take you Places....READ

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

The 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.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.