Imagination Quotes
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"There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer."
-Voltaire
-Voltaire
"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
-Albert Einstein
"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
-George Bernard Shaw
-George Bernard Shaw
"They imagine they're the wave of the future, but it's only sewage flowing downhill."
-Lois McMaster Bujold
-Lois McMaster Bujold
"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible."
-Alexander Chase
-Alexander Chase
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!""
-Bill Bradley
-Bill Bradley
"Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society."
-Marguerite Blessington
-Marguerite Blessington
"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
-Toni Morrison
-Toni Morrison
"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
-Tom Stoppard
"Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky - fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will."
-Frank Gelett Burgess
-Frank Gelett Burgess
"Imagination, industry, and intelligence - "the three I s" - are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination."
-Kitty O'neill Collins
-Kitty O'neill Collins
"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
-Sean O'Faolain
"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality."
-Irving Howe
-Irving Howe
"Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!"
-Jacques Lipchitz
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-Jacques Lipchitz
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