Imagination Quotes

The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the though...

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for hi...

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people...

We may see a Creature with forty-nine headsWho lives in the desolate snow,And whenever he catches a ...

You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck."Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on ...

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory be...

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...

He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he...

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose...

In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and retur...

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the ...

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, ...

Radio was theater of the mind.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the a...

Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But d...

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And...

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human ...

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but n...

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may ...

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act ...

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is thi...

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

If you are a dreamer come inIf you are a dreamer a wisher a liarA hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer...

Poetry = Anger x Imagination

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he c...

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real ne...

I had to call the past to life, and illuminate every corner of the five continents, descend to the c...

I begin by imagining The impossibleAnd end by accomplishingThe impossible.

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any othe...

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which...

I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and n...

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which...

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nut...

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of...

If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be...

His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God hel...

What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a r...

The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imaginatio...

What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in adv...

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparent...

Where do you get dreams like this?

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't ...

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have ...

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field...

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Everyone’s alone—or so it seems to me.They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;The...

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced....

If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imagi...

Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws o...

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent...

I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science a...

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collecti...

We live in condensations of our imagination

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist i...

A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it p...

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro...

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity...

What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Ma...

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts ...

I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the origi...

A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revere...

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, ...

But there you put your finger on what it is that separates the sheep from the goats, and vice versa:...

His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing...

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, m...

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of it...

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are ...

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not co...

If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational w...

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picni...

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I dev...

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...

There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce...

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.

The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

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

Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a le...

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.