Quotes
Quotes about Imagination
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!
. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Books, 1870.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken.
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a momentâbut who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
