The Imagination Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

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

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

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

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.

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

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Before we love with our heart, we already love with our imagination.

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

Imagination is something you do alone.

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.