Home / Topics / Imagine Quotes

Imagine Quotes

Browse 5524 quotes about Imagine.

Imagine Quotes

“I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.”

Ifs Way Seems Winning Wise Imagine Genius Not Sure Wizards Funny But True Gallant Swordsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.”

Men Wise Imagine Fool

Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.”

Want Mind Prayer Wise Imagine Atheism Praying Praise Positive Atheism Imagine That Favour Hymns

Author:Barbara Smoker

“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.”

Book Real Sometimes Helping Hands Accepting Wise Imagine Fool Depends Ought Kings Dignity Importance Titles Merit Slender

Book:Essays and The Bee

Source: Essays and The Bee

“All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.”

Men Mind Wells Hours Walks Brain Wise Imagine Trouble Advice Ought Walking Exercise Constitution Legs Active Sentences Mistaken One Hour Very Wise Physically Active Wise Advice

Author:George Sand

“Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.”

Thinking Men Hard Levels Attention Wise Imagine One Thing Fool Mets Equal Paid Absolutes Surface Stores Giants Superiority Exclusive Commonplace Texture Dwarfs

Author:William Hazlitt

“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.”