The Imagination Quotes

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.

The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always. Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Remember - no limitation can be placed on you by any one but yourself. With your imagination you have a unique ability to draw on an infinite source of supply. There is power in thought.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.