Quotes by Imagination In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance. Edgar Allan Poe visionimaginationsight Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton originalitynobleimagination There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. Edward de Bono creativitycreativeimagination It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. Edward Dahlberg criticismimaginationpeople Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. Edward Abbey atheistimaginationdream We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. Edward de Bono creativityimaginationorder One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement. Edward Dahlberg imaginationtogetherworry It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality. Edmund Burke understandingimaginationmind To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. Edward Hallowell imaginationworrymemories No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Edward Hopper aquariumsimaginationart The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton eyeimaginationmistake The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission. Edward Hirsch understandingimaginationhands A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton imaginationlawart There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Edward de Bono creativitycreativeimagination The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the misfortune of a single day, if the fatal power of the imagination did not exaggerate the real measure of the calamity. Edward Gibbon realimaginationhistory The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton artistrealimagination Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Edmund Burke imaginationtruthfiction Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. Edwin Percy Whipple passionimaginationjudging A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. Edwin Percy Whipple starvationauthorshipimagination We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world Eglantyne Jebb imaginationmeanworld«3637383940414243444546»
