Imagination Quotes And Sayings

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“The imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream–he awoke and found it truth.”
– John Keats

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

“Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.”
– John Moffat

“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”
– Joseph Addison

“He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.”
– Joseph Joubert

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
– Joseph Joubert

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
– Joseph Joubert

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
– Joseph Joubert

“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”
– Josh Billings

“A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.”
– Karl Marx

“Always remember, ‘If you cannot imagine it you cannot achieve it.”
– Kathleen Arnason

“Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.”
– L. Frank Baum

“Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.”
– L. Ron Hubbard

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
– Lao Tzu

“For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.”
– Larry Eisenberg

“Believe that you have it, and you have it.”
– Latin Proverb

“The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.”
– Latin Proverb

“Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.”
– Lauren Bacall

“The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“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 moment – but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?”
– Lord Byron

“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“It is clear that however different from the real one an imagined world may be, it must have something — a form — in common with the real world.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What is thinkable is also possible.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“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

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
– Mark Twain

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
– Mark Twain

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