Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Passion, Imagination, Judging

• A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Imagination, Authorship, Starvation

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1870). “Essays and Reviews”, p.38

• The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eye, Heart, Reality

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.199

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