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"Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts."
"The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination."
"I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be."
"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination."
"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
"For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination."
"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."
"I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever offered -- that truth which we can all find, if we will but seek in things, not in words; in nature, not in human imagination; in our own hearts, not in temples made with hands."
"The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see."
"Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination."
"The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending."
"For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition."
"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"
"Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality."
"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
"Imagination decides everything."
"The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have."
"Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours."
"It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance."
"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution."
