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"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.
Quote by -Louis Pasteur
"It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"Ant swarming City City full of dreams Where in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve"
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little earlier, but they give up their imagination, their creativity, their will to work hard and to suffer for what they believe is right."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation."
Quote by -Kate Middleton
"I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about."
Quote by -Ben Carson
"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my grandfather did to him."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that."
Quote by -Carol Burnett
"Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that."
Quote by -Carol Burnett
"I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
Quote by -Denis Waitley
"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization."
Quote by -Denis Waitley
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
Quote by -Dale Carnegie
"There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“It is from this very illusion of the imagination, that the foresight of our own dissolution is so terrible to us, and that the idea of those circumstances, which undoubtedly can give us no pain when we are dead, makes us miserable while we are alive. And from thence arises one of the most important principles in human nature, the dread of death, the great poison to the happiness, but the great restraint upon the injustice of mankind, which, while it afflicts and mortifies the individual, guards and protects the society.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the”
Quote by -Aesop
“It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle