“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.”
Quotes about imagination
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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”
“Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.”
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”
“The human race is governed by its imagination.”
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
“Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.”
“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
“Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.”
“Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.”
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.”