| "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. imagination encircles the world." »Albert Einstein |
| "imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. imagination led Columbus to discover America. imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." »L. Frank Baum |
| "imagination, industry, and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination." »Ellen Terry |
| "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 |
| "There is only one admirable form of the imagination the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen." »Sean O'Faolain |
| "The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination." »Marquis de Sade |
| "When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception." »Emile Coue |
| "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 |
| "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not." »John Keats |
| "Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. imagination encircles the world." »Albert Einstein |
| "It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." »David Bailey |
| "The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness." »John Keats |
| "Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money." »Simone Weil |
| "Live out of your imagination, not your history." »Stephen Covey |
| "The world is but a canvas to the imagination." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The man who has no imagination has no wings." »Muhammad Ali |
| "Memory feeds imagination." »Amy Tan |
| "An idea is salvation by imagination." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "imagination is the eye of the soul." »Jeseph Joubert |
| "Worry is a misuse of imagination." »Dan Zadra |
| "imagination is more important than knowledge..." »Albert Einstein |
| "There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." »Anonymous |
| "imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." »Carl Sagan |
| "Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination." »Melissa Mayer |
| "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future." »Charles Franklin Kettering |
| "You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "imagination is a poor substitute for experience." »Henry Havelock Ellis |
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