Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Topics: Imagination Quotes, Perception Quotes

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse...

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself...

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself...

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in...

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in...

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of...

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

A woman's life is a history of the affections

A woman's life is a history of the affections

If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try...

If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try...