I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Imagination and memory are but one thing, which for diverse considerations has diverse names.”
Source: Leviathan
“Imagination and reality have little in common”
“Imagination and recollection of cherished memories of the pastimes are closely related. We do not recall memories verbatim. As our perspective changes regarding our place in the world, we shift through our recollections and revise our memories. People possess the ability to edit their memories by repressing unbearable episodes and highlighting incidences that generate fond memories. How we perceive and comprehend ourselves in the past, the present, and the future shapes our evolving sense of self. Humankind’s ability to repress unpleasant events and humankind’s ability to act as the solo editors of our germinating awareness of the world that we occupy is ultimately responsible for activating our metamorphosing sense of identity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Imagination as an act required vulnerability, required that I didn't seek to master what I perceived but to respond in ways that allowed me to move and be moved by all that I encountered.”
Source: Tar Hollow Trans: Essays
“Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.”
Source: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still
“Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.”
“Imagination begins when it' s raining too hard to go out and play and you become really absorbed in something you would never have thought of doing had the sun come out as usual. In which case, thank God for the rain.”
“Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.”
Source: ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change
“Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
“Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday.”
Source: Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography
“Imagination brings bliss at no cost”
“Imagination brings the most unimagined riches for even the heedless is compelled till he finds his madness, and that is the beginning of a blessed love affair.....”
“Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.”
Source: Commentaries on Living
“Imagination can be concentrated by attention to build
positive outcomes—harmonious structures, communities, technologies, even worlds—but it can just as easily be harnessed to create hell on earth.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Imagination can create crazy things in a place you don't know.”
Source: The Magic of Avalon Eyrelin
“Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.”
“Imagination can take you anywhere!”
Source: Roux and the White Rabbit
“Imagination can take you Places....READ”
“Imagination can take you to any place of interest.”
“Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.”
“Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Imagination comes alive when skates scar the ice to tell fairy tales.”
“Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.”
Source: Pilgrim's Inn
“Imagination comes in after we have experience.”
“Imagination comes of not having things.”
“Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.”
“Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.”
“Imagination consumes most of our brain bandwidth. We have to imagine the future almost every moment.”
Source: Quantraz
“Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.”
“Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.”
“Imagination creates reality.”
“Imagination creates some big monsters.”
“Imagination decides everything: it creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the world's supreme good.”
Source: Pensées
“Imagination decides everything.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Imagination dictates who we are in life.”
“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.”
“Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrens hands.”
Source: Home Education
“Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.”
Source: Killosophy
“Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.”
Source: Reflections
“Imagination encircles the world.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.”
“Imagination exceeds infinity.”
“Imagination flourishes best in solitude.”
Source: Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus
“Imagination gives the man the ability to poject himself through time and space and rise above all limitations.”
“Imagination gives us the ability to observe, explore, and figure out by the way, you should have God's favor too.”
“Imagination governs the world.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut