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Imagination16 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869If 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 · 1843My 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 · 1997He 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 · 1872I 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 · 1595All 16 quotes →Anticipation2 quotes
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 · 1843I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare · 1603Creativity2 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein · 1929Knowledge2 quotes
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. — Anatole France · 1881Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein · 1929Power of thought2 quotes
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 · 1997O, 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 · 1595Creation1 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 · 2000Daydreaming1 quote
His heart was in his garden; but his brain
Wandered at will among the fiery stars. — Frederick Goddard Tuckerman · 1860Discovery1 quote
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon · 1605Disenchanted world1 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 · 1872Effects of travel1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Excitement1 quote
I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare · 1603Inspiration1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Intuition1 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 · 1817Memory1 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 · 2000Nile River1 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 · 1872Observation1 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 · 2000Perception1 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 · 2000Possibility1 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 · 1843Progress1 quote
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. — John Dewey · 1929Scientific progress1 quote
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. — John Dewey · 1929Thoughts1 quote
O, 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 · 1595Travel1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869