Imagination Quotes

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.

Jose Vasconcelos

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Lauren Becall

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

James Russell Lowell

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Helen Rowland

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Henry Havelock Ellis

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

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

Voltaire

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

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

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

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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".

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

Bill Bernbach

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

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Melissa Maye

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

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

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

John Keats

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

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

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

Worry is a misuse of imagination.

Dan Zadra

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

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self - Interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

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

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli