Quotes about Imagination
What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.
— William Golding
I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.
— William Goldman
I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
— Heinrich Heine
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.
— Heinrich Heine
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
— Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
Live the life you've dreamed.
— Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
— Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
— Henry David Thoreau
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher