Definition of Imagination
Imagination
The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
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Imagination Quotations
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
Imagination Translations
imagination in Afrikaans is verbeelding
imagination in Dutch is inbeelding, verbeelding
imagination in German is Vorstellung, Einbildung
imagination in Norwegian is innbilning, fantasi
imagination in Swedish is inbillning, fantasi
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