Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with unde

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. – Thomas Carlyle

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. – Charles Kettering

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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. – George Berkeley

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. – Oscar Wilde

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