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Quotes About Imagination

Imagination is a very scarce resource, and also a highly imperfect one, because thinking about things that have not happened is inherently more difficult than thinking about things that have.
~ Francis Fukuyama
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
~ Francis Herbert Bradley
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus…. Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
~ Francis Pharcellus Church
Verona has long haunted the English imagination.
~ Francis Russell
It is the awareness of right and wrong, along with the development of language, awareness of self, and the ability to imagine the future, to which scientists generally refer when trying to enumerate the special qualities of Homo sapiens
~ Francis S. Collins
The Christian is the one whose imagination should soar beyond the stars.
~ Francis Schaffer
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
~ Francisco de Goya
The sleep of reason produces monsters
~ Francisco de Goya
The slumber of reason breeds monsters.
~ Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)
~ Francisco de Quevedo
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
~ Francisco Goya
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters)
~ Francisco Goya
El sueno de la razon produce monstuos
~ Francisco Goya
Always lines, never forms! But where do they find these lines in Nature? For my part I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.
~ Francisco Goya
El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)
~ Francisco Goya
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos
~ Francisco Goya
Todo en el aire es pájaro.
~ Francisco Umbral
Todo le recibe como si le esperase desde siempre, y puede mirar a los perros y a los gatos frente a frente, lo cual nosotros no hacemos nunca. El niño pasa del sueño a la vigilia dentro de una misma palabra, sin ruptura, sin trauma, y va por la casa despertando a lo que siempre estuvo dormido, hasta que él llegó.
~ Francisco Umbral
Only our imagination has the power to create the world you want and whatever gives you true joy. Beware of those who tell you to face reality and let go of your imagination. All they may truly ask for is that you shift your imagination from what you want to what they want.
~ Franco Santoro
Whatever you dream be aware that it is just a dream. Yet, since there are infinite parallel universes, whatever you dream must be real somewhere in the multiverse. And if it is real, no matter where, then it is not a dream anymore.
~ Franco Santoro
He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
~ Francois Maurice Mitterrand
Art must take reality by surprise.
~ Francoise Sagan
Les livres ont-ils pour mission d'embellir la vie ou de la restituer telle quelle ?
~ Frank Andriat