“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
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imagination
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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.”
“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
“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.”
“It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”
“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.”
“Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.”
“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
“Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.”
“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”