Imagination Quotes

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe ...

One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as ...

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all shar...

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

I see nobody on the road,' said Alice'I only wish I had such eyes,' The King remarked in a fretful t...

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a carto...

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by i...

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happen...

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbe...

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our...

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have somet...

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. I've tried...

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every...

I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religio...

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I ...

Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from a...

My life exists in an imagined reality.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life giv...

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb t...

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination.

For a young man has strong imagination but poor judgment, so that he imagines others to be as big as...

The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made...

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

The sea refreshes our imagination because it does not make us think of human life; yet it rejoices t...

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can...

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it mark...

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a mor...

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individua...

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagina...

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States...

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagi...

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice...

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisi...

Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work...

Of course! the path to heavendoesn't lie down in flat miles.It's in the imaginationwith which you pe...

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They...

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could b...

so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they ta...

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I...

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his su...

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true abou...

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivio...

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, f...

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinc...

There are people who can never go to Fantastica," said Mr. Coreander, "and others who can, but who s...

What do you suppose it means?'[Bastian] asked. ""DO WHAT YOU WISH.'" That must mean I can do anythin...

The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among s...

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's...

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside ...

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success...

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out ...

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are...

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...

At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for ...

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read fo...

The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to ...

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasion...

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, o...

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest ...

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (ano...

Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part...

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

All that night he thought like boomerangs fly: an idea would shoot way off into the distance, all th...

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) i...

Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened i...

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes...

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dre...

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have n...

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment...

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twist...

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagi...

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they c...

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...