Imagination Quotes - Page 12

• Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Doe, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

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• There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Desire

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

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• Consider everything an experiment.

  Corita Kent

  Experiments, Productivity

  Corita Kent, Corita (1992). “Learning by Heart”, Bantam

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• Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Poetry, Shadow, Casts

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Vitality, Loses

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

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• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Real, Creativity

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• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Forever, Censorship In Books

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• Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Age, Dying

  Saint Joan (1924) epilogue

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• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Civilization, Secret

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.96

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• The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

  George Meredith

  Love, Love Is, Disaster

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• Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Would Be, Arms

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• Curiosity is the main energy.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Curiosity, Energy

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• Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Simplicity, Firsts, Return

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• When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

  Mark Twain

  Ocean, Creativity, Sleep

  Mark Twain (2011). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, p.320, NewSouth Books

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• The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

  Charles Churchill

  Health, Science, Doctors

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• Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

  Albert Camus

  Art, People, Consolation

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• The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Happiness, Keys, Life Is

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Life, Advertising, Resurrection

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• There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

  Frank Leahy

  Life, Nfl, Shortcuts

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• The key to life is imagination.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Life, Keys, Life Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.

  Thomas Church

  Garden, Desire, Limits

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• We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Admiration, Live By, Sentiments

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• The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.

  John Landis Mason

  Art, Fire, Light

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• The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Giving, Soar

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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