Imagination Quotes - Page 45

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.

Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?

I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.