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Imagination Quotes and Quotations
 A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.  Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver us! I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour. Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain. His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. Imagination is the eye of the soul. Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears, creates. Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination. To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover, and a bee, and revery The revery alone will do, if bees are few. The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the eye of the soul. He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. - Pascal 
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