Imagination Quotes
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.Bruce Lee
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.Scott Ringenbach
Memory feeds imagination.Amy Tan
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
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.Israel Lipkin
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
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.Stephen King
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
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
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.Oscar Wilde
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
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.Stephen Hawking
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.Voltaire
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.Lord Byron
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.Albert Einstein
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
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 more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
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
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.Honore De Balzac
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.Helen Rowland
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
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
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase".
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.Dr. Robert Schulle
An idea is salvation by imagination.Frank Lloyd Wright
