680 private quotes tagged imagination

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.” — Horace Walpole

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“The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.” — John Berger

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“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.” — Man Ray

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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Montessori

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“If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.” — Walt Disney

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“I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.” — Anna Deavere Smith

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“If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.” — Jason Statham

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“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.” — Denis Waitley

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“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.” — Simone Weil

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“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” — Stephen Covey

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“As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.” — Bharati Mukherjee

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“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.” — Thomas Traherne

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“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem

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“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.” — Joseph Conrad

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“The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.” — Vladimir Kramnik

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“Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.” — Louis Aragon

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“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” — Immanuel Kant

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“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.” — Marquis de Sade

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“The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.” — George Meredith

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“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” — Salman Rushdie

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“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” — Orison Swett Marden

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