Edmund Burke Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, Passion, Creativity

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.422

• Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

  Edmund Burke

  Numbers, Imagination, Shadow

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.557, Transaction Publishers

• Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

  Edmund Burke

  Truth, Imagination, Fiction

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

• It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.

  Edmund Burke

  Imagination, Understanding, Mind

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