Imagine Quotes - Page 17

• Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

  Lord Kelvin

  Common Sense, Mathematics, Harsh

  "Life of Lord Kelvin". Book by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 1910.

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• I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

  Raul Julia

  Book, Reading, Wife

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• It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

  Mehmet Oz

  Ocean, Water, Meditation

  "Look Who’s Meditating Now" By Irina Aleksander, www.nytimes.com. March 18, 2011.

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• How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Talking, Sea, Silence

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• It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Spring, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.827, Library of Alexandria

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• I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Religion, Atheism, Knees

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• This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Ignorance, Men, Two

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• I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and not to their own fear. Imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they prefer you dirty and smiling.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Fear, Dirty

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• They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

  Solomon Northup

  Fear, Prayer, Ignorant

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.135, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

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• It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Fear, Real

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• Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Desirable

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 25, 2014

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• He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Airplane, Thinking

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

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• I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Meaningful, Daughter, Mother

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• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  Fay Wray

  Mother Daughter, Play, My Daughter

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• Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

  Margaret Atwood

  Diversity, Imagination, Humanity

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• ...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Gun, Simple, Notable

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• I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Ignorance, Economics, Not Sure

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• All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that life's complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did.

  Harold Urey

  Believe, Origin Of Life, Looks

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• Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, Inspirational, Jesus

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• Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour, becomes frustration. Each hope leads you into anguish. Buddha calls it the only impurity. Cut the roots of desire, live in the moment so totally, pull yourself out of the past and don`t project yourself into the future. Let this moment be all and all. And your life will have such a purity, such a crystal-clear consciousness that right now you cannot imagine.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Cutting, Frustration

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• Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Passion, Tired

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.162, Penguin

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• Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

  George Sand

  Kindness, Regret, Thoughtful

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• Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Keys, Heaven, Secret

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• I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

  Miep Gies

  Growing Up, Hero, Helping Others

  "Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies". www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2010.

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