Motivational Quotes

Imagination

Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

- Mallory, Paul

Best Quotes about Imagination

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Carlyle, Thomas

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Carson, Rachel

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coue, Emile

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Einstein, Albert

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Connelly, Billy

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Verne, Jules

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Brande, Dorothea

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It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Orr, Leonard

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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!

Waitley, Denis

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

Berger, John

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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Hill, Napoleon

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the as if technique.

James, William

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold...

Collier, Robert

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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Ruskin, John

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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Morrison, Alex

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Stevens, Wallace

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Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

Collier, Robert

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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Ruskin, John

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Library, Speakers

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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Anderson, Marian

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We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus.

Twain, Mark

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It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

Ruskin, John

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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

Einstein, Albert

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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives.

Devore, Stephen

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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Bach, Richard