All Quotes

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
‐‐ Simone Weil

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto

Imagination comes of not having things.
‐‐ LeRoy Neiman

Imagination creates reality.
‐‐ Richard Wagner

Imagination creates some big monsters.
‐‐ Olivier Martinez

Imagination decides everything.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

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.
‐‐ L. Frank Baum

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
‐‐ Ellen Terry

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
‐‐ Malachy McCourt

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
‐‐ Timothy Spall

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look scared, I don't know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you're actually doing some of the stunts, then it's not so hard at all, because there's an actual fear there.
‐‐ Chris Pine

Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.
‐‐ Michael O'Brien

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
‐‐ Simone Weil

Imagination is an instrument of survival.
‐‐ Rogier van der Heide

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
‐‐ George William Curtis

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
‐‐ Gilbert Parker

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
‐‐ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
‐‐ Guy Davenport

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
‐‐ Irving Howe

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Imagination is the air of mind.
‐‐ Philip James Bailey

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
‐‐ Ada Lovelace

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
‐‐ Ida Tarbell

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
‐‐ Henry Miller

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

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
‐‐ Amy Waldman

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
‐‐ Rod Serling

Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto

Imagination needs to be fed.
‐‐ Barbara Januszkiewicz

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

Imagination rules the world.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Imagination - that's the future for us.
‐‐ Jan Brett

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
‐‐ Robinson Jeffers