“Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.”
— Karen Armstrong
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“To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.”
— Thomas Traherne
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“Only in your imagination can you revise.”
— Fay Wray
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
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“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
— Tom Stoppard
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“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
— Napoleon Hill
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“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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“People can die of mere imagination.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”
— Napoleon Hill
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“The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.”
— Bryant H. McGill
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