Imagination Quotes
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
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.Voltaire
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 world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.Albert Einstein
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)
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.Carl Sagan
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
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
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.Oscar Wilde
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.Melissa Maye
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
The man who has no imagination has no wings.Muhammad Ali
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
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
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.Henry David Thoreau
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Worry is a misuse of imagination.Dan Zadra
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
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
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.Dr. Robert Schulle
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.Bill Bernbach
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.Lord Byron
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
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
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
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
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.Robert Collie
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Albert Einstein
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.Marcus Valerius Martialis
