Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently … It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses… Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things… Imagination too shows what is … Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!

The early digital pioneers were able to conceive of something that didn’t yet exist because they were possessed of something we often only ascribe to artists: imagination.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

Your limitations are only your imagination.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts – in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma – would someday be called Congressman.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

I love roles that don’t really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination… that really, really turns me on.

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We’re only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.

As imagination grew it is likely that the fear of death increased until the Folk that were to come projected this fear into the dark and peopled it with spirits.

Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way. Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or ‘lift’ objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

The sky is not the limit, your imagination is.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

The more cricket you play in your head, the less you perform on the field. So let cricket, the sport, be on the field.

I’m An Optimistic Guy. I’m One Of Those Big Dreamers. I’m One Of Those Kids With That Annoying Imagination.

Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird

The world of literature is a world of wonder, a universe of imagination waiting to be explored

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind’s eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Man’s relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man’s relation to the cosmos–to the unknown–which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing.

Imagine the Creator as a stand-up comedian – and at once the world becomes explicable.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I was a black kid and was expected to write from that perspective. Yet I had to realize the black perspective was dictated by the white imagination.

Rowena: I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time

I write to create a world where I am free to be myself, where I can explore the depths of my imagination.

Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with

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

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you’ve got everything and you’re still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

The men you see waiting in the lobbies of doctors’ offices are, in a vast majority of cases, suffering through poisoning caused by an excess of food.

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

The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

As usual, nature’s imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. She’s always got better imagination than we have.

Nature’s imagination far surpasses our own.

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

I think nature’s imagination Is so much greater than man’s, she’s never going to let us relax.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

I used to imagine it. I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip. And now that I have that? I can’t even describe that feeling. That’s why I like the best – the best cars, the best food, the best watches.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

But there seems to be little correlation between a man’s effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

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

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.

Some of the most significant discoveries in modern science owe their origin to the imagination of men who had neither accurate knowledge nor exact instruments to demonstrate their beliefs.

I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Imagination is real.

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination and a little dough.

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Imagination rules the world.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking… Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we’re comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.

But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them

The Christian imagination bas produced nothing but an insipid legend.

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn,’ and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

The love of accumulating money grows an absorbing passion in men whose imaginations, even in the very beginning of their hoard, showed them no purpose beyond it.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable; they can die of imagination.

People can die of mere imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the direct.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I’m reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

I like to work with young people because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. They’re full of confidence and imagination and vision and when they score, that all get’s empowered.

There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

Reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.

Imagination decides everything.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Besides, your imagination often plays tricks on you in moments of danger

Our only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of our imagination.

Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

If you do not see riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

It is the imagination that argues for the divine spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination

Grow into your ideals, so that life can never rob you of them

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Only the limits of your imaginations can determine how far you go in life.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

An era that has lost its gods cannot just choose one at random and worship it. So it must be indifferent to all gods, including the Christian God.

The novel is the imaginary paradise of individuals.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

To be honest, I never realized it. I never really wondered if I was going to be really good or not. I just wanted to make my dream come true.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.