680 private quotes tagged imagination

“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.” — Alan Watts

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

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

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

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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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“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.” — Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” — Muhammad Ali

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“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” — Harry S. Truman

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

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

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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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“Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.” — Mason Cooley

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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” — Mark Twain

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

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“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.” — Josh Billings

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“True change takes place in the imagination.” — Thomas Moore

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“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” — Albert Einstein

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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” — Francis Bacon

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