680 private quotes tagged imagination

“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.” — Stephen Covey

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“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.” — Luis Bunuel

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“Imagination decides everything.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“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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“Imagination rules the world.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” — Carl Sagan

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