Quotes about Imagination
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
— Henry David Thoreau
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The imagination is the only part of us that cannot be shackled. It is the irreducible essence of who we are, and it is that which allows us to see into our future. Einstein said, "The imagination is the preview of what is to come.
— Les Brown
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
— Lewis Carroll
He thought he saw a BuffaloUpon the chimneypiece:He looked again, and found it wasHis sister's husband's niece.
— Lewis Carroll
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
— Lewis Carroll