The Imagination Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

The moment there is imagination there is myth

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

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.

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.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

Imagination rules the earth

If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

There is no map that can show you how to leap. The map for this is somewhere in our own imagination.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.