Motivational Quotes

Imagination

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

Best Quotes about Imagination

I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Kline, Peter

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.

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

Orr, Leonard

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Morrison, Alex

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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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

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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Sade, Marquis De

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.

Belazy, Madame

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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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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Bierstedt, Robert

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

Mark Twain

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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Serling, Rod

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Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Hill, Napoleon

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Weil, Simone

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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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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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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If you clearly and vividly IMAGINE yourself in the first person doing, being, having the things and qualities you truly want... then you will be using positive imagination to begin a change to fulfilling that image.

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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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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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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

Mcdonald, John

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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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 mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Anderson, Marian

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.