Quotes by Imagination The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. Marcel Proust slidesimaginationmind Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. Marcus Tullius Cicero difficultvirtueimagination Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind. Margaret Oliphant compassionimaginationfirsts But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine. Marcel Proust imaginationtryinggiving Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further. Margaret Mitchell altarsgirlimagination It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble. Marcel Proust realimaginationmemories Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. Marcel Proust atmosphereimaginationpeople Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. Marcus Aurelius wastetouchingimagination In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Marcus Aurelius painimaginationmind When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life. Marguerite Duras breathsimaginationpast ... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing. Margaret Mead mirrorsfishingimagination An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. Maria Callas imaginationhouselong Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington storytellingpoetimagination Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even Maria Konnikova elementsimaginationway We especially need imagination in science. Question everything. Maria Mitchell questioningimaginationneeds Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core. Maria Montessori forceimaginationchildren Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Marcus Aurelius crushedwholeimagination The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. Maria Montessori imaginationteachingchildren there is no reasoning with imagination. Maria Edgeworth reasoningimagination Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. Maria Montessori imaginationusedoe«96979899100101102103104105106»
