Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
The imagination is man’s power over nature.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Doubt is the father of invention.
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Ideas control the world.
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can’t imagine something that has never existed before, it’s impossible.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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.
I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
