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Quotations by Subject: Imagination (18 quotes)

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A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.: Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934)
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 1
Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
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The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.: Sir Eric Ashby
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The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.: Israel Lipkin
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.: Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.: Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)

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