Famous Quotes
- To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
- Juliette Gordon Low on Imagination
- To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein on Imagination
- To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
- Wallace Stevens on Imagination
- To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
- George Jean Nathan on Imagination
- To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
- Donald Sutherland on Imagination
- 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 on Imagination
- To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
- Isaac D'Israeli on Imagination
- To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
- John Burroughs on Imagination
- Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
- Karen Armstrong on Imagination
- Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
- Cyril Connolly on Imagination
- Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
- Tim Robbins on Imagination
- True change takes place in the imagination.
- Thomas Moore on Imagination
- True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
- Ian Mcewan on Imagination
- Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.
- Duane Michals on Imagination
- Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
- Marquis De Sade on Imagination
- Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
- Derek Jacobi on Imagination
- Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
- Gary Ross on Imagination
- Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
- Arthur Keith on Imagination
- Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
- Mark Haddon on Imagination
- Usually I say I have no imagination.
- Jose Padilha on Imagination
- Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein on Imagination
- Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
- Robert Collier on Imagination
- Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
- Emmitt Smith on Imagination
- Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
- Doris Day on Imagination
- War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
- Bill Moyers on Imagination
- We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
- Jean Giraudoux on Imagination
- We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
- Richard Le Gallienne on Imagination
- We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
- Jacob Bronowski on Imagination
- We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Imagination
- We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
- Thomas Merton on Imagination
- 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 on Imagination
- We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
- Ariel Dorfman on Imagination
- We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
- Judy Garland on Imagination
- We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
- Jessica Hagedorn on Imagination
- We especially need imagination in science.
- Maria Mitchell on Imagination
- We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
- Maria Montessori on Imagination
- We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
- Terry Brooks on Imagination
- We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
- Anne Sullivan Macy on Imagination
- We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
- Wallace Stevens on Imagination
- 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 on Imagination
- Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
- Paul Keating on Imagination
- Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
- Terry Brooks on Imagination
- Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
- Rashida Jones on Imagination
- Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
- Ashley Judd on Imagination
- Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
- Samuel Johnson on Imagination
- What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
- Salman Rushdie on Imagination
- What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
- Julianna Baggott on Imagination
- What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
- Jeffrey Katzenberg on Imagination
- What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.
- Wynton Marsalis on Imagination
- What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
- Doris Lessing on Imagination
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