680 private quotes tagged imagination

“It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?”— Cesare Pavese

“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”— Emile Coue

“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”— Aesop

“It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.”— Edgar Degas

“There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.”— Edith Wharton

“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”— Marquis de Sade

“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.”— Bryant H. McGill

“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”— Susan Sarandon

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”— W. Somerset Maugham

“The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.”— Jonathan Sacks

“I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.”— Terry Pratchett

“Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.”— Marquis de Sade

“Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.”— Duane Michals

“To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.”— Lord Chesterfield

“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”— E. E. Cummings

“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”— R. D. Laing

“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”— Maxwell Maltz

“I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.”— Katy Perry

“Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.”— Terry Brooks

“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“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