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Quotations by Subject: Imagination (18 quotes)

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[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music in the Form - Six Lessons
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability to see the future, so that the long-run consequences of our short-run choices are vividly clear. In that sense, our shortcomings in this arena are really failures of imagination.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
The genius of play is that, in playing, we create imaginative new cognitive combinations. And in creating those novel combinations, we find what works.: Stuart Brown M.D. and Christopher Vaughan, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, 2009
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril.: J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961
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