- 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
- What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
- John Keats on Imagination
- What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
- Kerry Thornley on Imagination
- What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
- Shia LaBeouf on Imagination
- What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
- Phylicia Rashad on Imagination
- When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
- Rhona Mitra on Imagination
- When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
- Andrea Mitchell on Imagination
- When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
- Ellen Key on Imagination
- When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
- Tim Berners Lee on Imagination
- When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
- Emile Coue on Imagination
- When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
- Ahmet Zappa on Imagination
- When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.
- Olivia Thirlby on Imagination
- When you are young your imagination is so clear.
- Nina Blackwood on Imagination
- When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
- Samuel Dash on Imagination
- When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
- Susan Sarandon on Imagination
- When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!
- Devon Werkheiser on Imagination
- Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
- Arthur Conan Doyle on Imagination
- Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
- Stephen King on Imagination
- While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.
- Frank Rich on Imagination
- Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo Da Vinci on Imagination
- Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Imagination
- With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
- Theodore Gericault on Imagination
- With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
- Iain Sinclair on Imagination
- Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
- Rita Dove on Imagination
- Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
- Gloria Steinem on Imagination
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