Quotes About Imagination

But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.

Home had always been a place to dream of.

I would be more inclined to tell my children the opposite," she said. "Stop being fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

Le nostre idee devono essere grandiose quanto la natura, se devono interpretare la natura stessa.

Things are always easier when imagination ceases and action begins

heard the creature

Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it

my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of the writer.

si buscamos efectos extraños y combinaciones extraordinarias, debemos fijarnos en la vida misma, que siempre es mucho más sorprendente que cualquier esfuerzo de la imaginación.

You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

What one man can invent another can discover, said Holmes.

Let me indicate a possible line of thought. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Ciò che è noto racchiude in sé meno terrore di ciò che è soltanto sussurrato e fantasticato

He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.

Bir kad?n?n hayalini elinden almak, bir kaplan?n yavrusunu elinden almaya benzer.

See the value of imagination. It is the one quality which Inspector Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.

Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

But you have the nimble mind and quick fancy of youth, turning over from the thing that is half done to a further task beyond.

Das sind Leute, die immer Erfolg haben, ohne daß man weiß, wie er zustande kommt. Die Leute arbeiten mit Einbildungskraft anstatt mit nackten Tatsachen.«

Este de ahora se halla envuelto en un misterio que actúa como estimulante de la imaginación; donde la imaginación está ausente no hay horror posible.

If the confidence of children can be gained, and they are led to speak freely, it is surprising how many claim to have seen fairies.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

Si queremos encontrar efectos extraños y combinaciones extraordinarias, debemos buscarlos en la vida misma, que siempre es más atrevida que cualquier ezfuerzo de la imaginación