Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Politics, Opponents

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

• Silence is the mother of truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Beautiful, Mother

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Works”, p.182

• Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life Is Too Short, Imagination, Littles

• Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Truth, Honesty

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1865). ““Church and Queen.” Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].”, p.72

• It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Men, Conquer The World

  Benjamin Disraeli (1869). “The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.”, p.176

• Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Men, Imagination

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 4, ch. 13

• That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Enthusiasm, Heat

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

• In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Engineering, Hands

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