Imagination Quotes
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
So you see, imagination needs moodling—long inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
My books have been banned simply because they are imaginative – science-fiction, fantasy, what have you. The imagination is considered dangerous and of course, it is. These people are right. The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Imagination rules the world.
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Everything you can imagine is real.
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
The man who has no imagination, has no wings.
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground—not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
Imagination is as good as many voyages—and much cheaper.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor, to console him for what he is.
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Dare to be naive.
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire and measure the wind.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.
The imagination of the actor adorns the text of the playwright with fanciful patterns and colors from his own invisible palette.
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed—or cursed—with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
Art is the sex of the imagination.
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
The creative imagination can grasp characters and conditions not directly experienced, because the creator has access to all parts of his personality. To use the fashionable word, he has empathy with characters unlike him, because he knows that deep down he shares some of their unlovely traits.
Imagination plus action equals creation.
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian.
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
Man is an imagining being.
The true voyage of the imagination is the voyage to the land, to the very domain of the imaginary.
Imagination is the air of mind.
What year is it in your imagination?
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
The human imagination...has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialistic practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
To search for truth, one has to be drunk with imagination.
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
"Imagination" is a word which derives from the making of images in the mind, from what Wordsworth called "the inward eye."
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence—this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.
The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.
When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
![The game I play [as a scientist] is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. - Richard Feynman quote.](/img/q/48/33448A-the-game-i-play-as-a-scientist-is-very-interesting-richard-feynman.png)
The game I play [as a scientist] is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
Imagination is new reality in the process of being created.
I don't understand the process of imagination—though I know that I am very much at its mercy. I feel that these ideas are floating around in the air and they pick me to settle upon.
Imagination isn't merely a surplus mental department meant for entertainment, but the most essential piece of machinery we have if we are going to live the lives of human beings.
Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may, with equal truth, be applied to the imagination—it is a good servant, but a bad master.
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon—that which raises it from the earth.
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
Imagination is the voice of the daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
The man of learning without imagination has feet but no wings.
The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts.
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
The scientist, if he is to be more than a plodding gatherer of bits of information, needs to exercise an active imagination.
Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
Imagination is and must be father to the deed.
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and Divine power.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
If the imagination is to yield any real product, it must have received a great deal of material from the external world.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.
The imagination is man's power over nature.
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Whatever we build in the imagination will accomplish itself in the circumstances of our lives.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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.
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable colour to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Some stories are true that never happened.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
