Famous Quotes: I
Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” (Albert Einstein)
“You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?’” (George Bernard Shaw)
“Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.” (Oscar Wilde)
“Imagination rules the world.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” (George S. Patton)
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” (Albert Einstein)
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” (Thomas Edison)
“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Imitation
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” (Charles Caleb Colton)
”Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” (Oscar Wilde)
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.“ (Eric Hoffer)
Immortality
“The dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.“ (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.” (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.” (Helen Keller)
Importance
“People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.” (Malcolm S. Forbes)
“The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.” (Bob Hawke)
Impossible
“The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.” (George Santayana)
“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” (Louis D. Brandeis)
“Impossibility: a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.“ (Robert Goddard)
“The impossible is often the untried.” (Jim Goodwin)
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” (Thomas Carlyle)
“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” (Saint Francis of Assisi)
Inspiration
“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” (Thomas Edison)
“If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be” (Johann Von Goethe)
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” (Jack London)
Integrity
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” (Theodor Geisel, “Doctor Seuss”)
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” (Oscar Wilde)
“Calamity is the test of integrity.” (Samuel Richardson)
“Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.” (Max DePree)
“Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one’s identity.” (Erich Fromm)
“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” (Alan K. Simpson)
