Noun
The word is derived from imago
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Baldwin
The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in his simplicity and imagines he is telling the truth. Halldór Laxness
It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal. Arthur Cecil Pigou
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. Umberto Eco