Famous Quotes About - imagination

  • 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 {view}
  • All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ... Orison Swett Marden {view}
  • All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. ... Brian Tracy {view}
  • Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? ... Sun Tzu {view}
  • Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ... Joseph Addison {view}
  • Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ... Jessamyn West {view}
  • I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. ... Chris Brown {view}
  • I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. ... Elinor Wylie {view}
  • I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. ... Peter Nivio Zarlenga {view}
  • I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ... Duane Michals {view}
  • I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. ... Imran Khan {view}
  • I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. ... Ursula K. Le Guin {view}
  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ... Jorge Luis Borges {view}
  • I imagine that yes is the only living thing. ... e. e. cummings {view}
  • I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ... Dr. Seuss {view}
  • I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ... Calvin Trillin {view}
  • I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ... Pablo Picasso {view}
  • I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ... Michelangelo {view}
  • I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. ... Simon Pegg {view}
  • If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. ... George S. Patton {view}
  • If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ... George Orwell {view}
  • Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ... Simone Weil {view}
  • Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ... W. Somerset Maugham {view}
  • 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. ... L. Frank Baum {view}
  • Imagination rules the world. ... Napoleon Bonaparte {view}
  • Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ... Carl Sagan {view}
  • Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. ... Epictetus {view}
  • It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ... Paul Gauguin {view}
  • Live out of your imagination, not your history. ... Stephen Covey {view}
  • One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. ... Francois de La Rochefoucauld {view}
  • Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ... Henry David Thoreau {view}
  • People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ... William Butler Yeats {view}
  • Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. ... Stephen Leacock {view}
  • Some stories are true that never happened. ... Elie Wiesel {view}
  • The imagination is man's power over nature. ... Wallace Stevens {view}
  • The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ... William Shakespeare {view}
  • The man who has no imagination has no wings. ... Muhammad Ali {view}