Imagination Quotes - page 5

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. (Iris Murdoch)
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them. View quote
Laurette Taylor
Ordinary language blinkers the already feeble imagination. View quote
J. L. Austin
Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination. View quote
Vernon L. Smith
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. View quote
Napoleon Hill
She has no imagination and that means no compassion. View quote
Michael Foot
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. (Robert Fulghum)
Imagination travels faster than sight. Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. View quote
James A. Michener
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. View quote
Jane Austen
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. View quote
Catherine II of Russia
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy. View quote
Charles Lamb
The power of imagination makes us infinite. View quote
John Muir
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. View quote
Richard Feynman
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost. View quote
William Butler Yeats
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. (William Blake)
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. View quote
Carl Jung
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. View quote
Rod Serling
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. View quote
Helen Rowland