Imagination Quotes And Sayings

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“Hope is the dream of a man awake.”
– French Proverb

“You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiae of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”
– George Eliot

“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”
– George Scialabba

“Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought.”
– Giambattista Basile

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
– Graham Greene

“All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination’s utterances.”
– Henry Abbey

“Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”
– Henry Ford

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”
– Henry Miller

“The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye–not creation, but insight.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

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

“All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God’s self in the soul.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”
– Immanuel Kant

“Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.”
– Indra Devi

“We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.”
– J.M. Coetzee

“History has shown us that our tendency to colonize and exploit other regions has always backfired. This planet can be made a happier, more peaceful place to live in, but the change will have to come from within the hearts of all of us living here.”
– Jagad Guru Chris Butler

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
– James Russel Lowell

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
– Jane Austen

“Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“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

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
– John Dewey

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination–what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth–whether it existed before or not.”
– John Keats

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