Definition of Imagination

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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

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

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

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
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 only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
Tony Robbins

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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