“It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.” MayI CanSpeakImaginationImagineFieldsArmsHigherDegreesAngelWaveInvisibleImagine That Author:Richard P. Feynman
“There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldSeemsOrderImagineHonestProveDegreesAbsolutesAccomplishmentReservesDeference Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.” MenDoePainFateImagineCircumstancesDegreesMerePessimismImagine ThatModestUnitsPessimistRemorseless Author:Agnes Repplier
“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.” StillsBeautifulYoungLife IsGrowsSidesImagineFailingTreeFlowerTasteFutureDegreesWasteFruitDisappearAdmireOpeningDesertButterflyPausesLife Is LikeLanesBleakTemptingYoung LifeBeautiful Butterfly Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.” MenWorldKindQualityImagineDegreesEvery ManSuperiorsImagine That Book:The Rambler Source: The Rambler
“Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.” MenWorldKindMaySufferingQualityImagineBalanceDegreesExcellenceEvery ManInvisibleSuperiorsFancyDistinctionComparisonImagine ThatReservesFavourDisadvantagesLatent Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretation. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them...The true explanation is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry (those of the 32nd and 33rd degrees)” ImagineDegreesBlueCourtSymbolsExplanationTemplesInterpretationImagine ThatReservedInitiateMisledMasonry Author:Albert Pike
“I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.” WorldFeelsWritingDoeBookSelfSchoolImagineDegreesVicesBoringBrownCommentProfessorsHistorianWriting A BookVice Versa Author:Elizabeth Neel
“Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!” PeoplePoliticalTurnsPoliticsTeachImagineTeamFootballHigherDegreesSurpriseQualifiedPolitical ScienceHigher EducationFootball TeamAmway Author:Richard Jeni
“My greatest achievement would be my nursing degree and my dream job that followed. I worked so hard to get where I am now, and I wouldn't imagine doing anything else.” HardDreamWould BeJobsImagineDegreesAchievementNursingGreatest AchievementDream Job Author:Nikki Ferrell
“When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.” ThinkingPersonsGoneAliveImagineBecomingDegreesHappeningsSickSick Person Author:John Green
“Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.” ThinkingSelfHardFormPoliticalTermActingImagineMovementBuddhismDegreesMassIntrospectionExaminationSelf-examination Author:Pankaj Mishra