Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
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Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
— Irving HoweImagination
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
— Lionel StanderImagination
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
— Arthur Wing PineroImagination
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
— Natasha CalisImagination
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
— Eduard HanslickImagination
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
— Bruno RossiImagination
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
— Elizabeth DrewImagination
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
— David GarrickImagination
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
— Felix BlochImagination
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
— Leslie BanksImagination
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