Imagination Quotes

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Samuel taylor coleridge - works of imagination should be written in very...
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Arthur wing pinero - a financier is a pawnbroker with imagination....
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire
The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow.
Charles Churchill
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David Bailey
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.
Author Unknown
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.
Marilyn King
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S Truman
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
Dan Zadra
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultie
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Jeseph Joubert
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.
Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.
H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science - Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells".
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Garrison
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Henry Havelock Ellis
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
Robert Collie
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Voltaire
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam Chomsky
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Lord Byron
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Dr. Robert Schulle