Imagination Quotes
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
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
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
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".
Imagination is more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein
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 helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.Honore De Balzac
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S Truman
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.Voltaire
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.Napoleon Hill
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.Bill Bernbach
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
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
An idea is salvation by imagination.Frank Lloyd Wright
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
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)
Memory feeds imagination.Amy Tan
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
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
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.Helen Rowland
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
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".
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.Lawrence George Durrell
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
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
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.Lord Byron
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.Marquis de Sade
So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.Brenda Ueland
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.Henry Havelock Ellis
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
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
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.Albert Einstein
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
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.Israel Lipkin
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
