Imagination Quotes

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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 ferment the character undecided the way of life uncertain.

John Keats

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Havelock Ellis

Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.

Hannah More

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

Marcel Proust

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

John Galsworthy

It is good to know the truth but it is better to speak of palm trees.

Arabic proverb

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Napoleon

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty justice and happiness which is everything in this world.

Pascal

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home.

John Keats

Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alfred North Whitehead

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night good Lord deliver us!

Anonymous

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Ned Rorem

It was a year when Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe with the countries neat and different-coloured. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose and turning a thousand miles an hour.

Carson McCullers

Imagination is haunted by the swiftness of the creatures that live on the mountain - eagle and peregrine falcon, red deer and mountain hare. The reason for their swiftness is severely practical: food is so scarce up there that only those who can move swiftly over vast stretches of ground may hope to survive. The speed, the whorls and torrents of movement, are in plain fact the mountain's own necessity. But their grace is not necessity. Or if it is - if the swoop, the parabola, the arrow-flight of hooves and wings achieve their beauty by strict adherence to the needs of function - so much the more is the mountain's integrity vindicated. Beauty is not adventitious but essential.

Nan Shepherd

Ugh, writer's block. The best thing to do is to forget about everything you're trying to do. Get away from your writing station, kick your feet up and relax. Then allow your mind to just wander. Don't stop it. Just let yourself think of anything, no mater how silly the thoughts seem. Remember, not to judge these thoughts. This will open up your creative receptors. You'll begin to think outside the box. Then the good stuff will start racing through you. That's when you start writing!

La Tisha Honor

Imagination holds the key to finding potentials to pursue.

Steven Redhead

Imagination must be allowed to run free in our subconscious mind and when ready, it reveals its ideals to us in our conscious state.

Lee Bice-Matheson

It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman, and so, forces retreat, humility, and awe, in the presence of spaces beyond our will.

Tom Cheetham

Do the work in your unique style.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When we write down our dreams we transform what we imagine into reality.

Gina Greenlee

May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Imagination is the power of attraction, when you want something you have to imagine it, to attract the thing to you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

Gina Greenlee

Love requires imagination more than experience.

Simon Van Booy

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

T.L. Rese

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.

William C. Samples

The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions.

Harper Lee

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.

Lionel Suggs

What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Bruce Sterling

I used to give X-ray vision a lot of thought because I couldn’t see how it could work. I mean, if you could see through people’s clothing, then surely you would also see through their skin and right into their bodies. You would see blood vessels, pulsing organs, food being digested and pushed through coils of bowel, and much else of a gross and undesirable nature. Even if you could somehow confine your X-rays to rosy epidermis, any body you gazed at wouldn’t be in an appealing natural state, but would be compressed and distorted by unseen foundation garments. The breasts, for one thing, would be oddly constrained and hefted, basketed within an unseen bra, rather than relaxed and nicely jiggly. It wouldn’t be satisfactory at all—or at least not nearly satisfactory enough. Which is why it was necessary to perfect ThunderVision™, a laserlike gaze that allowed me to strip away undergarments without damaging skin or outer clothing. That ThunderVision, stepped up a grade and focused more intensely, could also be used as a powerful weapon to vaporize irritating people was a pleasing but entirely incidental benefit.

Bill Bryson

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.

Sarvenaz Tash

I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.

William Golding

Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.

Lionel Suggs

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

K. Ford K.

Whatever thing the mind can imagine, the eyes can see, the hands will soon handle.

Ogwo David Emenike

Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery is your friend.

Lionel Suggs

Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit!

Giuseppe Bianco

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.

Thomas Warfield

You aren’t allowed back until you’ve learned to willingly suspend disbelief.

Rebecca Murphy

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick cotton blanket of clouds, and the air is vapor-filled and hazy with a concentration of blooming scent.The world is somnolent and cool, in a temporary reprieve from the normal heat and radiance.But the sensation of illusion is strong. Because the sun can break through the clouds at any moment . . .What a soft thoughtful time.In this illusory gloom, like a night-blooming flower, let your imagination bloom in a riot of color.

Vera Nazarian

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

Orhan Pamuk

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.

Sri Chinmoy

Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.

Steve Maraboli

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