thoughts and photos » imagination

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:20:12 +0000

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:20:02 +0000

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
—Oscar Wilde

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:19:46 +0000

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
—Alfred North Whitehead

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:19:36 +0000

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
—Simone Weil

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:19:23 +0000

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
—Mark Twain

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:19:15 +0000

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
—Publilius Syrus

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:19:03 +0000

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:18:47 +0000

You see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say, ‘Why not?’
—George Bernard Shaw

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:17:09 +0000

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
—Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Sara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:16:56 +0000

The people who are willing to talk about imagination rarely have much. Imagination is a guilty secret, usually, a passion best kept inside the privacy of one’s own skull.
—Margaret Lee Runbeck