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Imagination |
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| "Imagination is the one weapon
in the war against reality." |
| -- Jules de Gaultier |
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| "So you see, imagination needs
coddling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and
puttering." |
| -- Brenda Ueland |
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"Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
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-- Albert
Einstein
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"The philosopher's stone is nothing more than
that which was to enable man's imagination to take a stunning revenge on
all things."
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| -- Andre Breton, French writer |
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"When
I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." |
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--
Mark Twain
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| "The world is but a canvas to the
imagination." |
| -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), American
writer |
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| "To regard the imagination as
metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as
part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the
mind." |
| -- W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965), British writer |
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| "Imagination grows by exercise and
contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the
young." |
| -- Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929), American author |
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"Imagination
was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to
console him for what he is." |
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--
Sir
Francis Bacon
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| “The past is really almost as
much a work of the imagination as the future.”
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| -- Jessamyn West |
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"Imagining
it is half of doing it." |
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--
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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| "Love is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence." |
| -- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956),
American editor |
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| "Neither a lofty degree of
intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." |
| -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-91), Austrian composer |
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| "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."
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| -- John Keats (1795-1821),
British poet |
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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-Exupéry
(1900-44), French writer, aviator |
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| "Some stories are true that never
happened." |
| -- Elie Weisel |
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| "They are ill discoverers that think there
is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." |
| -- Francis Bacon |
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| "Live out of your imagination, not your
history." |
| -- Stephen Covey, American management
consultant |
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| "Vision is the art of seeing the
invisible." |
| -- Jonathan Swift |
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| "Consistency
is the last resort of the unimaginative." |
| -- Oscar Wilde |
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| "You
see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were
and ask, 'Why not?'" |
| --
George Bernard Shaw |
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| "Imagination
is the only weapon in the war against reality." |
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--
Jules de Gautier |
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| "Everything you can imagine is
real." |
| -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973),
Spanish artist |
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| "You cannot depend on your eyes when
your imagination is out of focus." |
| -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
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| "Neither a lofty degree of
intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." |
| -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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| "Imagination is the eye of the soul." |
| -- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
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| "Love is a canvas furnished by
Nature and embroidered by imagination." |
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-- Voltaire (1694-1778) |
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| "Our imagination is the only
limit to what we can hope to have in the future." |
| -- Charles Franklin Kettering
(1876-1958), American electrical engineer |
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| "To invent, you need a good
imagination and a pile of junk." |
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-- Thomas Edison |
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| "Imagination and fiction make up more than
three-quarters of our real life." |
| -- Simone Weil |
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| "The world of reality has its
limits; the world of imagination is boundless." |
| -- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78),
French philosopher |
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| "As great scientists have said
and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we
achieve perception, and compassion, and hope." |
| -- Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929), US
author |
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“Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...”
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| -- John Lennon, English rock composer and
performer |
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| "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 |
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