Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Spring, Flower

• This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Imagination, Miracle, Mind

• A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Powerful, Self, Profound

• If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Imagination, Rant, Ifs

• By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, Mean, Color

• Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Imagination, Advancement, Creation

• Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Thinking, Class

• Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Past, Views

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

• In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, Imagination, Grace

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