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Duane Michals

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it.

William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

Anatole France

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Norton Juster

Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

George Bernard Shaw

???So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination ... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring f

Walt Whitman

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Craig Stecyk

[the serpent saying to Eve]

Oscar Wilde

Skaters by their very nature are urban guerillas: they make everyday use of the useless artifacts of the technological burden, and employ the handiwork of the government/corporate structure in a thousand ways that the original architects could never dream

William Butler Yeats

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Elie Wiesel

Some stories are true that never happened.

Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Mark Twain

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Calvin Trillin

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

George S. Patton

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Duane Michals

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Duane Michals

Trust that little voice in your head that says Wouldn't it be interesting if...; And then do it.

Stephen B. Leacock

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ralph Gerard

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Theodor Geisel

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Theodor Geisel

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!

Paul Gauguin

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Emily Dickinson

The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Lewis Carroll

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Edmund Burke

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

L. Frank Baum

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.

Joseph Addison

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.

L. Frank Baum

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.

Anatole France

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

L. Frank Baum

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. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.

Emile Coue

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

Ellen Terry

Imagination, industry, and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

Sean O'Faolain

There is only one admirable form of the imagination the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Marquis de Sade

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

David Bailey

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

John Keats

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

Simone Weil

Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Anon.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Jeseph Joubert

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

AKENSIDE: _Pl. of the Imagination,_ Bk. iii., Line 567.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

Carl Sagan

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Duane Michals

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Jules de Gautier

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

H.L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Emily Dickinson

The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination.

William Shakespeare

The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.

Jessamyn West

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Henry David Thoreau

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _Another and a Better World._

Imagination is the air of mind.

John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Mark Twain

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Wallace Stevens

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Charles De Gaulle

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Melissa Mayer

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Ralph Gerard

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Dr. Robert Schuller

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination.

Jeseph Joubert

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Lord Byron

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Edmund Burke

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

But what if I'm a figment of my OWN imagination?

Worry is a misuse of imagination.

Memory feeds imagination.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Imagination rules the world.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

If God hadn't wanted me to be paranoid, He wouldn't have given me such a vivid imagination.

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Racial prejudice is a pigment of the imagination.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination. There's no future in time travel.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

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.

Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.

Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.