Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
- Joseph Addison
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
- L. Frank Baum
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Edmund Burke
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
- Lewis Carroll
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
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The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.
- Emily Dickinson
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
- Anatole France
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
- Paul Gauguin
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Theodor Geisel
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My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
- Theodor Geisel
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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
- Theodor Geisel
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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
- Ralph Gerard
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Stephen B. Leacock
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- Orison Swett Marden
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Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.
- Duane Michals
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I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
- Duane Michals
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
- George S. Patton
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
- Pablo Picasso
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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
- Norman Podhoretz
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
- William Shakespeare
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
- Calvin Trillin
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- Simone Weil
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West
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Some stories are true that never happened.
- Elie Wiesel
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- William Butler Yeats
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I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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