The Imagination Quotes

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.

There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle.

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

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

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

Capability means imagination.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.