Imagination Quotes
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
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
Live out of your imagination, not your history.Stephen Covey
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.Scott Ringenbach
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.Anon.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.Voltaire
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
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
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
The man who has no imagination has no wings.Muhammad Ali
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.Honore De Balzac
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.Marquis de Sade
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.Melissa Maye
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
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.Arthur Wing Pinero
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
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)
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
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
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.Stephen King
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
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
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
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
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 grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
An idea is salvation by imagination.Frank Lloyd Wright
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.Israel Lipkin
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.Lawrence George Durrell
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that? s all you have.James Dean