Imagination Quotes - Page 50

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

Imagination is my best friend.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Imagination governs the world.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.