Imagination Quotes

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire

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

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

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".

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Noam Chomsky

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

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 more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Bill Bernbach

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

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 possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Dominique Bouhours

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

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Melissa Maye

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

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

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Albert Einstein

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)

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Henry Havelock Ellis

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord Byron

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

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

So you see, imagination needs moodling - Long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Brenda Ueland

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon I

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

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

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Stephen Covey

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

Nathan Campbell