“Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
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Gloria Steinem
4 quotes“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of plan...”
John Keats
3 quotes“Open wide the mind's cage-door,She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.”
Walt Disney
3 quotes“Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”
John Green
3 quotes“My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations.”
Marcel Proust
3 quotes“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
3 quotes“Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.”
Heraclitus
2 quotes“The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)”
Sylvia Plath
2 quotes“You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusio...”
Flaubert
2 quotes“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your...”
Picasso
2 quotes“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Lauren Bacall
2 quotes“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”
Carl Sagan
2 quotes“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”