Quotes About Imagination
1. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein
2. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. – Dr. Seuss
3. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein
4. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. – Albert Einstein
5. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? – Sun Tzu
6. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. – Edgar Allan Poe
7. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. – Michelangelo
8. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain
9. If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. – George S. Patton
10. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! – Dr. Seuss
11. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. – Brian Tracy
12. The man who has no imagination has no wings. – Muhammad Ali
13. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. – George Orwell
14. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. – William Shakespeare
15. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. – Carl Sagan
16. The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. – Charlie Chaplin
17. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. – Henry David Thoreau
18. I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse. – Walt Disney
19. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. – Pablo Picasso
20. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. – Thomas A. Edison
21. Imagination rules the world. – Napoleon Bonaparte
22. Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Stephen Covey
25. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
26. It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. – H. L. Mencken
27. Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. – Simone Weil
28. Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. – Henry Miller
29. Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. – Epictetus
30. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
31. I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges
32. I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. – Peter Nivio Zarlenga
33. People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. – William Butler Yeats
34. There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke
35. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. – Immanuel Kant
36. I imagine that yes is the only living thing. – e. e. cummings
37. Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’ And then do it. – Duane Michals
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