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Quotes about Imagination


When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coué

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Billy Connelly

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Miguel De Basile

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -Lauren Bacall.

Lauren Bacall

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

Philip Roth

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

Leo Rosten

A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Isaac D'Israeli

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

Isaac D'Israeli

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

Mary Coleridge

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Jessamyn West

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Unattributed Author

Imagination is the air of mind.

Philip James Bailey

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Robert Burton

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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