Imagination Quotes & Sayings

Imagination Quotes & Sayings

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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. - Louis Aragon



The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge



When the will and the imagination (unconscious) are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without exception. - Emile Coue



There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. [De., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack] - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe



By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell. - Maya Angelou



Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. - Annie Dillard



We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. - Maria Mitchell



We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. - Seneca



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 Christoph Lichtenberg