Quotes by Imagination I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. Thomas Bailey Aldrich imaginationmindwings Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it. Thomas A. Edison good-thingsimaginationideas The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. Thomas A. Edison innovationimaginationchildren This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. Thomas B. Macaulay miracleimaginationmind In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. Thomas B. Macaulay graceimaginationart The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes a universe to make a child both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a universe to educate a child. A universe to fulfill a child. Thomas Berry imaginationmindchildren Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work. Thomas A. Edison plusambitionimagination If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along. Thomas B. Macaulay rantimaginationifs In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish. Thomas Cahill swimmingdepthimagination Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in. Terry Pratchett imaginationsleepfun I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins. Terry Pratchett realimaginationtrying An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink. Thomas Chandler Haliburton strongimaginationmay The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination. Thomas Church gardenimaginationdesire If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry Thomas Cole paintingimaginationifs Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something. Thomas A. Edison inspirationimaginationtogether Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. Thomas B. Macaulay advancementcreationimagination Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. Thomas Carlyle cogsimaginationhistory Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination. Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar fishingimaginationbrain I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. Terry Pratchett inventionimaginationlooks Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination. Thomas Harris penaltiesimaginationfear«147148149150151152153154155156157»
