Saturday, July 30, 2011

Imagination Quotes .

- “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” –Orison Swett Marden
- “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.” – Joseph Addison
- “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West
- “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.” – Peter Nivio Zarlenga
- “I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” – Duane Michals
- “I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
- “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Theodor Geisel
- “I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” – Calvin Trillin
- “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso
- “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo
- “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton
- “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” –Simone Weil
- “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led – “Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” – L. Frank Baum
- “Imagination rules the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
- “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan
- “It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” – Paul Gauguin
- “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll
- “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey

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