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William Shakespeare2 quotes
I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare · 1603O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat? — William Shakespeare · 1595Albert Camus1 quote
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning. — Albert Camus · 1957Albert Einstein1 quote
Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein · 1929Anatole France1 quote
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. — Anatole France · 1881Carl Jung1 quote
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. — Carl Jung · 1921Francis Bacon1 quote
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon · 1605Frederick Goddard Tuckerman1 quote
His heart was in his garden; but his brain
Wandered at will among the fiery stars. — Frederick Goddard Tuckerman · 1860George Eliot1 quote
He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination. — George Eliot · 1872Gerald M. Edelman1 quote
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. — Gerald M. Edelman · 2000Jean-Dominique Bauby1 quote
My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face. — Jean-Dominique Bauby · 1997John Dewey1 quote
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. — John Dewey · 1929John Keats1 quote
I am certain of nothing but of 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. — John Keats · 1817Mark Twain1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Maurice Sendak1 quote
Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot. — Maurice Sendak · 1963Soren Kierkegaard1 quote
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843