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- A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.
- Albert Cooper
- It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
- Napoleon
- There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
- Vinet
- I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.
- Greville
- It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
- Author Unknown
- It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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