Monday, 8 April 2019

Imagination - Quotes

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. - Albert Einstein

The human imagination ... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialistic practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. - John Berger

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

The imagination is man’s power over nature. - Wallace Stevens

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. - Leonardo da Vinci

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea. - Max Planck

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. - Voltaire

What feeling, knowledge or will man has depends in the last resort upon what imagination he has. - Søren Kierkegaard

The most important thing for a child to learn is that only some things can be imagined into reality. The most important thing for an adult to learn is that even if it doesn’t happen all the time, things DO get imagined into reality. - John Green

The only faculty by which we can bring the invisible near, is the imagination. Beyond that which the eye sees, beyond that which the ear hears, is a great region in which life is freer and more transcendently glorious than this. The imagination in us finds its field in trying to grasp that great fact. - Reuben Thomas

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities. - Frank Barron

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. - Henry Ward Beecher

The source of genius is imagination alone. - Eugene Delacroix

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. - Alfred North Whitehead

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. - Chuck Palahniuk

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire. - John L. Mason

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. - Henry David Thoreau

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. - Albert Einstein

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Alva Edison

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. - George Eliot

We imagine what we desire; we will what we imagine; and at last we create what we will. - George Bernard Shaw

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing. - Jules Verne

Without imagination, a man is but a poor creature. His life is like a night without a moon to gild it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

You can’t do it unless you imagine it. - George Lucas

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person. - Margaret Drabble

Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not. - Geraint Straker

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