Imagination
» “The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
– Muhammad Ali
» ”Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.”
– Dr. Robert Anthony
» ”Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
– Lauren Bacall
» ””To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.” ”He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.””
– Richard Bach
» ”The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
» ”Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.”
– Madame Belazy
» ”Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”
– E. T. Bell
» ”The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.”
– John Berger
» ”If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.”
– Sandra Bernhard
» ”To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?”
– William Blake
» ”What is now proved was only once imagined.”
– William Blake
» ”Imagination rules the world.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
» ”The human race is governed by its imagination.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
» ”To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery –even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness –is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.”
– Andre Breton
» ”The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren’t there.”
– Gene Brown
» ”Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.”
– Les Brown
» ”Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.”
– Luis Bunuel
» ”Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”
– Thomas Carlyle
» ”Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.”
– Thomas Carlyle
» ”If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
– Rachel Carson
» ”People can die of mere imagination.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer
» ”The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations… they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building — steadily building.”
– Robert Collier
» “See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.”
– Robert Collier
» ”Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don’t merely dream — but create!”
– Robert Collier
» ”Pictures help you to form the mental mold…”
– Robert Collier
» ”I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.”
– Billy Connelly
» ”Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”
– Joseph Conrad
» ”The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”
– Charles Horton Cooley
» ”Death is the tyrant of the imagination.”
– Barry Cornwall
» ”When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”
– Emile Cou
