imagination Quotes

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form...”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

topic:suffering imagination

“It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

topic:imagination

“The power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us is born without.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:power imagination body

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:writing reading imagination

“the writer is much more fortunate than the filmmaker, who is almost always doomed to show too much...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:writing imagination

“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve...”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

topic:freedom courage imagination

“Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:imagination

“Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:heart belief imagination

“It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:strength imagination

“That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:reality imagination

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