Imagination Quotes
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.J. R. R. Tolkien
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.Nathan Campbell
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.Oscar Wilde
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.Israel Lipkin
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
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.Anon.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.Dr. Robert Schulle
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.Marquis de Sade
So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.Brenda Ueland
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gaultie
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
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
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
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".
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
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
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
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
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 grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.Melissa Maye
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.Voltaire
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
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.Henry David Thoreau
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.Arthur Wing Pinero
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
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
