Imagination Quotes

Lionel trilling, the liberal imagination (1950) - there is no connection between the political...
Jules de gautie - imagination is the only weapon in the war against...
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Dr. Robert Schulle
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
Stephen Hawking
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Simone weil - most idealistic people are skint. i have...
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
Dan Zadra
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
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 is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison
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 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 and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
Voltaire
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
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
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
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
Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.
Nathan Campbell
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
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.
Scott Ringenbach
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
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
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
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
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
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
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".
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Anon.
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
Bill Bernbach
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
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
Melissa Maye