Quotes about Imagination
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
— George Bernard Shaw
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
— George Bernard Shaw
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
— George Bernard Shaw
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
— George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.
— George Bernard Shaw
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
— George Eliot
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
— George Eliot
Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers.
— George Eliot
But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable.
— George Eliot
Mrs. Davilow have willingly let fall a hint of the aerial castle-building which she had
— George Eliot
Fred at six years old thought her the nicest girl in the world, making her his wife with a brass ring which he had cut from an umbrella.
— George Eliot