Imagination Quotes

In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entert...

My father knew our way mile by mile; by day or by night, he knew where we were. Everything that chan...

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into ac...

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than ...

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark ...

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate n...

Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early...

I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

An idea is salvation by imagination

Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent o...

A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang...

Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, al...

Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and ...

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser:...

The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and insep...

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary l...

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, i...

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally po...

If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words-...

In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide tha...

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in orde...

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading h...

Hate is a lack of imagination.

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a...

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity – that was a quali...

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anyt...

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playi...

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face t...

He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed t...

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practiti...

But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to ...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of the...

I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back a...

I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of ...

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these...

Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears cre...

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to m...

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why...

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our bat...

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true ...

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves

It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.

You’re afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begi...

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, u...

You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begi...

Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I s...

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from real...

Still, though, I can’t be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I s...

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

See that house with the Ivy on it? From that rooftop, what if you leapt onto the next rooftop, dashe...

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successivel...

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar...

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever t...

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to ...

To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one ...

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, t...

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

The danger of abusing the discovery of the truth value of imagination for retrogressive tendencies i...

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imag...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to c...

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had be...

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more las...

…Marco’s answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in th...

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to ho...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, t...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the...

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to t...

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before,...

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part...

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within ...

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: w...

The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to un...

Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more po...