Imagination Quotes
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
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
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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.Scott Ringenbach
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
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.Ruth Ross
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
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
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
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gaultie
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.Stephen King
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
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
Worry is a misuse of imagination.Dan Zadra
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
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
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
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
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
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.Richard Hofstadte
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.Simone Weil
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.Marcus Valerius Martialis
Imagination rules the world.Napoleon I
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.Gloria Steinem
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.Thomas A. Edison
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
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
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.Albert Einstein
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.Dominique Bouhours
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.Emile Coue
