Imagination Quotes

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Everything you can imagine is real.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Doubt is the father of invention.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Imagination rules the world.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Man lives by imagination.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

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

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Ideas control the world.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Imagination creates reality.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

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.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.