Imagination Quotes

» To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

» A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

» I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

» Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

» Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it.

» I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

» Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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

» Some stories are true that never happened.

» They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

» Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

» If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

» There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

» It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

» You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

» Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

» Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

» It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

» Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

» You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

» I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

» The man who has no imagination has no wings.

» All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

» I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

» It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

» I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

» Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

» Live out of your imagination, not your history.

» Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

» I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

» Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

» I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

» People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

» The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

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