Quotes by Imagination Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. Gelett Burgess imaginationskywind Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself. Geoff Lawton imaginationprofoundthinking The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs. Geoff Mulgan technologyimaginationpeople Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind. Gautama Buddha calm-mindimaginationmen How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination. Geoffrey Chaucer fancyimaginationpeople When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. Geoffrey Wood eternityimaginationmind In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly. Geoffrey S. Fletcher stressimaginationtwo From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all. Geoffrey S. Fletcher parentimaginationcivilization If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. Geoffrey S. Fletcher imaginationhumanitymight People can die of mere imagination. Geoffrey Chaucer imaginationliteraturepeople It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical. George Benjamin imaginationwaitingthinking From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat. Gautama Buddha buddhistissuesimagination A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. George Berkeley raysimaginationmay Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual. George C. Marshall democracygovernmentimagination That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. George Berkeley passionimaginationideas It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household. Georg C. Lichtenberg imaginationgamesphilosophy Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire. George Edward Woodberry voiceimaginationdesire Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. George Eliot wallimaginationdog The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. This is why an explanation via design is not a legitimate alternative to scientific and other naturalistic modes of explanation. To refer to a miraculous cause is to refer to something that is inherently unknowable, and this sanctuary of ignorance explains nothing at all. However much it may soothe the imagination of the ignorant, it does nothing to satisfy the understanding of a rational person. George H. Smith designignoranceimagination Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition. George Gilder imaginationviewsideas«4748495051525354555657»
