There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination rarely.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this at any time it can be quietly led.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination as I try to do.