"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
-David Hume
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"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.“
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
-Irving Howe
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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