Famous Quotes

"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."

Lionel Trilling on Imagination

More quotes about Imagination

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

  Dr. Seuss on Imagination

• "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"

  Sun Tzu on Imagination

More quotes by Lionel Trilling

• "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

• "We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."

• "We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."

• "Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."

• "Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."