Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.