680 private quotes tagged imagination

“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.” — Albert Einstein

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“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” — John Muir

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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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“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.” — Albert Einstein

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

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“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.” — Helen Keller

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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” — Dr. Seuss

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“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” — Sun Tzu

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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“What is now proved was once only imagined.” — William Blake

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“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.” — Edouard Manet

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“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination; all compact.” — William Shakespeare

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“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” — Albert Einstein

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“When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

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“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.” — Abdul Kalam

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“We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.” — Deepak Chopra

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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.” — George Orwell

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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” — Michelangelo

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“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” — Dr. Seuss

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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” — Thomas A. Edison

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