“You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.”
— Maimonides
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“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.”
— William C. Bryant
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“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”
— R. D. Laing
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“Imagination creates some big monsters.”
— Olivier Martinez
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“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”
— Charles Kettering
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“Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.”
— John Adams
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“The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.”
— William Irwin Thompson
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“Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.”
— Christina Ricci
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“Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.”
— Doris Day
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“In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen – the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.”
— Oren Peli
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“Death is the tyrant of the imagination.”
— Barry Cornwall
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