The Imagination Quotes

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Imagination grows by exercise.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

You’re only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.

God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

One of the greatest assets you have is your imagination.

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

Stop rehearsing life's failures. Use your beautiful imagination to visualize success.

Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.

fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

The meaning of spirituality is to be healthy and happy; to be physically, emotionally and mentally strong. We can't find this with imagination. We must practice.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Imagination encircles the world.