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"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." Edmund Burke 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow." Charles Churchill 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination." John Dewey 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination." Lawrence George Durrell 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned." Gerald R. Ford 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant." Ursula K. Le Guin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire." Ernest Miller Hemingway 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It's time to start living the life you've imagined." Henry James 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination." Joseph Joubert 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination." John Keats 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth." John Keats 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels." Clive Staples Lewis 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation." W(illiam) Somerset Maugham 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination." Melissa Mayer 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Henry Louis Mencken 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant." Author Unknown 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Don't expect anything original from an echo." Author Unknown 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" George Bernard Shaw 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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John K. Hutchens Jorge Luis Borges Joseph Joubert
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