680 private quotes tagged imagination

“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” — William Blake

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“Few people have the imagination for reality.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” — Voltaire

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“First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” — Napoleon Hill

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“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.” — Edward Abbey

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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.” — Victor Hugo

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“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Science does not know its debt to imagination.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.” — Anatole France

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“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” — Francis Bacon

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“Imagination rules the world.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” — Pablo Picasso

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“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.” — Edmund Burke

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