Imagination Quotes
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
Imagination rules the world.Napoleon I
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.Israel Lipkin
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.Emile Coue
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
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
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
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.Anon.
Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.Nathan Campbell
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey
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
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
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.Lawrence George Durrell
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.Oscar Wilde
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.Richard Hofstadte
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
Imagination is more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
The man who has no imagination has no wings.Muhammad Ali
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.Plato
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.Author Unknown
Imagination is the eye of the soul.Jeseph Joubert
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.Charles De Gaulle
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.Honore De Balzac
