Imagination Quotes
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.George Bernard Shaw
The man who has no imagination has no wings.Muhammad Ali
The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow.Charles Churchill
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.Carl Sagan
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
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.Lawrence George Durrell
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.Honore De Balzac
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
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.Stephen King
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
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
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.Ruth Ross
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.Marcus Valerius Martialis
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
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.Albert Einstein
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.Charles F. Kettering
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
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
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 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
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.Melissa Maye
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 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 the reality of the dreamer.Scott Ringenbach
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.Henry David Thoreau
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.Emile Coue
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
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
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
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
