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Quotes About Imagination

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.
~ Salvador Dali
Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
~ Simone Weil
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
~ Stephen King
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
~ Sydney Smith
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
~ Terence McKenna
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
~ Victor Hugo
Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
~ William Butler Yeats
As I was going up the stair I met a man who wan't there He wasn't there again today Oh I wish he'd go away!
~ William Hughes Mearns
Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!
~ Constance Reid
The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.
~ David Lilienthal
It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in a lake to get at a bright pebble on the bottom of it.
~ Frederick Schiller Faust
What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination.
~ George Tyrrell
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
~ Anna Godbersen, Envy
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
~ Aberjhani
As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
~ Adam Smith
The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.
~ Adrian Mitchell
If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.
~ Adriana Trigiani
In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."
~ Alice Hoffman
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
~ Allen Tate
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.
~ Andrew Lau
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Each man has his fancy.
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
Art is one of man's few serious activities.
~ Austin O'Malley