Imagination Quotes

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

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

Ronald Reagan

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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

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".

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

John Keats

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

Christopher Isherwood

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Carl Jung

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

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Adele Brookman

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

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

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Albert Einstein

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow.

Charles Churchill

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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 Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon I

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

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

Jose Vasconcelos

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

Nathan Campbell

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Worry is a misuse of imagination.

Dan Zadra

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 is but a canvas to the imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain