The Imagination Quotes

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

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

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Imagination governs the world.

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

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

Wit is the flower of the imagination.

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

[History is] petrified imagination.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

Curiosity is the main energy.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.