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. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building
castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Letter by F.A. to L.B., reproduced in "Miscell. Antiq. Anglic"
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Letter by F.A. to L.B., reproduced in "Miscell. Antiq. Anglic"
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Imagination is the air of mind.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Another and a Better World)
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Build castles in the air.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3)
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: in "On Science"
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: in "On Science"
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for
absorbing positive knowledge.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: in "On Science"
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems
from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real
advance in science.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: in "On Science"
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to
the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than
my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: in "On Science"
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And castels buylt above in lofty skies,
Which never yet had good foundation.
Author: George Gascoigne
Source: Steel Glass (p. 55), (Arber's reprint)
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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Author: George Gascoigne
Source: Steel Glass (p. 55), (Arber's reprint)
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne
Geschmack.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Spruche in Prosa (III)
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To build castles in Spain.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Christening
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He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the
arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
[Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et
n'a pas de pieds.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (XXX)
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These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
Author: Junius
Source: Letter No. VII--To Sir W. Draper
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When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold
My beautiful castles in Spain!
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Aladdin (st. 1)
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His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled
him to run, though not to soar.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: On John Dryden
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
[Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: On John Dryden
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I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try
doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
Author: Terry Prachett
Source: in the "Sunday Times"
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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Author: Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater")
Source: Confessions of an Opium Eater
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In my mind's eye, Horatio.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Author: Helen Rowland
Source: None
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Source: None
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Author: George Jean Nathan
Source: None
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Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Author: Carl Sagan
Source: None
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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.
Author: Richard Feynman
Source: None
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Author: e. e. cummings
Source: None
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The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Author: Frank Barron
Source: None
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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
Author: Norman Podhoretz
Source: None
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Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
Author: John Pfeiffer
Source: None
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
Author: Joseph Joubert
Source: None
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Author: Carl Sagan
Source: None
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Author: Jessamyn West
Source: None
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
Author: Thomas Edison
Source: None
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Author: Paul Gauguin
Source: None
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When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Author: Tuli Kupferberg
Source: None
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Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.
Author: Duane Michals
Source: None
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Author: William Butler Yeats
Source: None
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Author: Jack London
Source: None
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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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.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Author: Sir Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.
Author: James D. Finley
Source: None
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