The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.—George Herbert.
Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction.—Johnson.
Illusion.—In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.—Madame Swetchine.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.—Voltaire.
Imagination.—We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.—George Eliot.
A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.—Spurgeon.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.—Joubert.
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.—Johnson.
Imitation.—Imitators are a servile race.—Fontaine.
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.—Dr. Vinet.