Imagination Quotes - Page 9

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  He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Science, Math

  Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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• If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wind, Purpose, Use

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.252, Penguin

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• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  Henry Miller

  God, Voice, Literature

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

  Nicholas Ray

  Men, Space, Limits

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Thoughtful, Play

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  "Flight to Arras". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1942.

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• By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Hope, Over You

  Napoleon Hill, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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• The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

  George Seaton

  Country, Wonderful, British

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• Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge, Science, May

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

  Jules de Gaultier

  Life, War, Reality

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• Children see magic because they look for it.

  Christopher Moore

  Life, Children, Imagination Creativity

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

  Adora Svitak

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

  "What adults can learn from kids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2010.

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• Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Heart, Rooms

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.43, Beacon Press

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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Graduation, Hope, Carpe Diem

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Doe, Debt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Taste, Fearful

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• Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Cowardice, Ability

  "A Farewell to Arms".

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• I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Intelligence, Facts

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• Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Skills, America

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Literature, Reason

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• Imagination encircles the world.

  Albert Einstein

  World

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Few people have the imagination for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Reality, People

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• Imagination creates reality.

  Richard Wagner

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Reality

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