imagination

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough.

—Charlie Chaplin

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

—Thomas Edison

If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

—Sigmund Freud

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

—Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

—Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

—Albert Einstein

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

—René Descartes

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

—Thomas Edison

True compassion begins only when you imagine yourself in the place of the person who’s suffering and experience true pain.

—Leo Tolstoy

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

—Sigmund Freud

Ye who now give the reins to your carnal opportunities. The present state that you are ready to imagine to be, all will soon pass away, and there are vast alterations coming. That are at hand, even at the door.

—Jonathan Edwards

Ye who now give the reins to your carnal opportunities. The present state that you are ready to imagine to be, all will soon pass away, and there are vast alterations coming. That are at hand, even at the door.

—Jonathan Edwards