We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
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.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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.
Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.