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"However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension."
"Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly."
"Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself."
"Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination."
"You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl."
"I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it."
"And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb."
"Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion."
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
"When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it."
"Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking."
"Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good."
"Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination"
"Imagination encircles the world."
"Imagination grows by exercise."
"The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination."
"There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law."
"Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work."
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
"It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery."
