Imagination & Dreaming Quotes

Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

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

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Imagination decides everything.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

People are only limited by their imagination. If you don't dream then you won't do it. Human beings are capable of doing amazing things.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle - the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Imagination needs to be fed.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Imagination comes of not having things.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Imagination creates reality.

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Imagination rules the world.

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

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

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.