Imagination Quotes
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
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.Israel Lipkin
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.Ronald Reagan
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.
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.Muhammad Ali
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.Barbara Garrison
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common - Sense.Helen Rowland
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
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
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
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.Arthur Wing Pinero
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 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
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gaultie
Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.Lord Byron
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
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
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
Imagination is more important than knowledge...Albert Einstein
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
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
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.Eug? ne Delacroix
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 grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.Stephen King
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.Honore De Balzac
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Albert Einstein
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - - Steadily building.Robert J. Collie
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.Lauren Bacall
