Imagination Quotes

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

John Keats

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Lawrence George Durrell

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

Honore De Balzac

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Lauren Becall

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.

Helen Rowland

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Author Unknown

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

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

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Bill Bernbach

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

Marquis de Sade

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.

Michel de Montaigne

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Dominique Bouhours

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.

Robert Collie

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz