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Action and lack of imagination
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Oscar Wilde
Audacity of imaginationEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Boundless
CompensationImagination 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
Depending on your eyesYou can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Failure of imagination.When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
Graham Greene
Governing the world
I am an artistI am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
I can't imagine it
It is a monasteryMy imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk.
John Keats
It is everythingImagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
It is imaginationThe tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
It is real
Lack of imagination
Limits
Lit by imagination
Living within your meansAnyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Logic and imaginationLogic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Men without imaginationLet us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
Marcel Proust
No wings
Passport to hell
Reality and imaginationReality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Mark Twain
Reason, intelligence and imagination Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Victor Hugo
The darkMy imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The imaginaryThe imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
Michel Foucault
The wings of imaginationSo rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
Alexandre Dumas
Vision
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