A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
想象力
Imagination
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
正是无知的眼睛给每件事物赋予了固定不变的色彩;小心这个绊脚石。
We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
当我们成年后，我们认为我们理解了这些规则，但我们真正经历的是想象力的收缩。
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
拥有想象力写一段话要花一个小时，如果你缺乏想象力，只需一分钟。
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
关于想象力的事情是，通过把它写下来的行为，一个人的想象力中一定有一些真理。
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
我怀疑想象力是可以被抑制的。如果你真的在一个孩子身上根除了它，他长大后会变成一个茄子。
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
诗人的想象力支配现实的程度，说到底，正是衡量他的重要性和尊严的准确尺度。
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
我认为我的安全感远远超过我的不安全感。我不像以前那么害怕自己和自己的想象力了。
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
一个人要经营成功的事业，必须有想象力。他必须像在异象中一样看待事物，像在整个事物的梦中一样看待事物。
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
今天，艺术家的作用是把想象带到科学中去，把科学带到想象中去，它们在神话中相遇。
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
孩子们不轻易放弃他们与生俱来的想象力、好奇心、梦想。你必须爱他们，才能让他们这么做。
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
当人们凭感觉行事时，他们的激情是有界限的;但当他们受到想象的影响时，就没有了。
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
如果你没有想象力，你就不再是人类;动物没有想象力;老年痴呆症是想象力的死亡。
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I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination.
除了心灵的圣洁和想象的真实，我什么也不确定。
Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
艺术不是解决问题，而是让我们意识到问题的存在。它打开我们的眼睛去看，我们的大脑去想象。
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed
凡是新奇的或不寻常的东西，都能在想象中引起一种愉快，因为它能使心灵充满一种愉快的惊奇，满足它的好奇心，使它产生一种以前不曾有过的想法
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
一个民族的文化存在于其人民的心灵和灵魂之中。
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
女人的想象力很敏捷;它从羡慕跳到爱情，从爱情跳到婚姻，一眨眼的功夫。
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
艺术家必须向自己想象中的怪物低头。