The Imagination Quotes

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.

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

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

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

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

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

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

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

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

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

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.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.