The Imagination Quotes

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

Poetry = Anger x Imagination

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

May you see the world with wonder. And may you imagine only good things.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.