Imagination Quotes

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen w...

Sea-foam And coral! Oh, I'll Climb the great pasture rocks And dream me mermaid in the sun's Gold fl...

But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere ...

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always w...

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not hav...

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while tha...

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the p...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin...

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creativ...

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than know...

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I woul...

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

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge ...

Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away.

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leav...

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can neve...

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The convent...

Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the...

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear....

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's ima...

Even when I worked in that world, I still wanted love so strong that the man would have no interest ...

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing ...

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the ...

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches wi...

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting at...

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someon...

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the ...

...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, t...

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing ...

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing ...

The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ig...

Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees ...

Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in t...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memor...

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern...

But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antic...

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not ...

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far mo...

One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem pr...

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

On hearing of the interesting events which have happened in the course of a man's experience, many p...

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or an...

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

They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced th...

Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held h...

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and...

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes in...

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaki...

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there...

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap...

Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of h...

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always fail...

Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slave...

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of hap...

I used to give X-ray vision a lot of thought because I couldn’t see how it could work. I mean, if yo...

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...

Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...

Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...

Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

Our schedules are so hectic we can’t get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constan...

God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristic...

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons w...

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered u...

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensu...

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is...