Imagination Quotes
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
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
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.Marilyn King
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
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.John Keats
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.Henry Havelock Ellis
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.Dominique Bouhours
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".
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
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.Honore De Balzac
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
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.Carl Jung
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.Lord Byron
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey
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
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
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
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
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
Imagination is the eye of the soul.Jeseph Joubert
Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.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
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
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
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
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.Bill Bernbach
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.Arthur Wing Pinero
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
