Imagination Quotes

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in eit...

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

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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

The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has ...

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with ...

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific know...

Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, dif...

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums...

But it would have been a surprise, not only to Katherine herself, if some magic watch could have tak...

But it would have been a surprise, not only to katherine herself, if some magic watch could have tak...

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountai...

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast v...

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspire...

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning ar...

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve

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

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in...

Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Wi...

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a ...

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn ...

The villages slept as the capable man went down,Time swished on the village clocks and dreams were a...

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination...

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irri...

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (...

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we "know" that it is. But as it registers on ou...

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance ...

...And yet a knowledgeis here that tenses the throatas for song: the inheritanceof the ones, alive o...

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...

He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the firs...

I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exerc...

IV   The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon beco...

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why,...

I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginati...

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cann...

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands...

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...

Yet the misty spring rain softened the outline of the mountain across the river and made it even mor...

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Imagine the clouds drippingDig a hole in your garden to put them in

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us...

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination ...

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ...

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...