The Imagination Quotes

It's fun to pretend you're a little kid, you get to use your imagination and live in a world that's not real.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

The only thing that limits us is our imagination.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

Life has more imagination than we do.

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

The mind contains all possibilities.

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.