“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 the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form o...”
Walt Disney
3 quotes“Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”
Marcel Proust
3 quotes“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
John Green
3 quotes“My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations.”
John Keats
3 quotes“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
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.”
Flaubert
2 quotes“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your...”
Pascal
2 quotes“Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.”
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...”
Heraclitus
2 quotes“The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)”
Carl Sagan
2 quotes“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
Lauren Bacall
2 quotes“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”