“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
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imagination
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“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”
“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.”
“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”
“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
“The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.”
“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”
“Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.”
“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?”
“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”
“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”
“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.”