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Quotes About Thought

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
~ Gaston Bachelard
You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.
~ Esther Hicks
Only in your imagination can you revise.
~ Fay Wray
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
~ William Godwin
Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
~ Plato
What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.
~ Lynda Barry, What It Is
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.
~ Josh McDermitt
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.
~ Wallace Stevens
With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.
~ Alberto Villoldo
The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.
~ R.A.Delmonico
Knowledge dilutes imagination.
~ R.A.Delmonico
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.
~ Paul Lockhart
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
~ Joseph Joubert
For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.
~ Albert Einstein
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
~ Walter Gilbert
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
~ David Bronstein
Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.
~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
~ Henry Steele Commager
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.
~ Jacob Bronowski
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
~ John Glenn