The Imagination Quotes

Imagination is the air of mind.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.

No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

The source of genius is imagination alone.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.