Imagination Quotes

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

Dominique Bouhours

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

Christopher Isherwood

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.

Scott Ringenbach

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Mark Twain

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Stephen King

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord Byron

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

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".

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

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

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

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

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

So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Brenda Ueland

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.

Robert J. Collie

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.

Oscar Wilde

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

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.

Ruth Ross

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart