Imagination Quotes
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
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
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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
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
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.Henry Havelock Ellis
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.Carl Jung
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
The man who has no imagination has no wings.Muhammad Ali
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
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
Imagination is the eye of the soul.Jeseph Joubert
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.Thomas A. Edison
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.Ursula K. LeGuin
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
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
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
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 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
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
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
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Albert Einstein
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gaultie
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.Author Unknown
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
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
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.Brenda Ueland
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.Nathan Campbell
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
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
