Imagination Quotes
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.Peter Nivio Zarlenga
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 will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.Carl Sagan
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.Henry David Thoreau
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.Lauren Becall
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
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".
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gaultie
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.Marcus Valerius Martialis
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. .. And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.Michel de Montaigne
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 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
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
Live out of your imagination, not your history.Stephen Covey
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.Marquis de Sade
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.Oscar Wilde
The man who has no imagination has no wings.Muhammad Ali
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.Stephen King
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
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Albert Einstein
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.Ruth Ross
Worry is a misuse of imagination.Dan Zadra
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Memory feeds imagination.Amy Tan
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
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
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
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
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
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.Scott Ringenbach
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.Ronald Reagan
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
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.Brenda Ueland
