The Imagination Quotes

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

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.

Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

Organic as a dandelion seed, [the ship of our imagination] will carry us to worlds of dreams and worlds of facts

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

The only war is the war against the imagination.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

What is thinkable is also possible.

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Chess is imagination.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.