You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~ Mark Twain
Imagination is the eye of the soul. ~ Joseph Joubert
Imagination is more imortant than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ~ Oscar Wilde
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring. ~ Terri Guillemets
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ~ Pablo Picasso
Imagination means nothing without doing. ~ Charles Chaplin
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ~ Thomas A. Edison
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. ~ Ingrid Bengis
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. ~ George Eliot
Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. ~ Publilius Syrus
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. ~ Lily Tomlin
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ~ Albert Einstein
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ~ Francis Bacon
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. ~ Jane Austen
What is now proved was only once imagined. ~ William Blake
Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination. ~ Marcel Proust
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~ Oscar Wilde
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere. ~ Carl Sagan
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. ~ Terry Pratchett
Imagination is what sits up with Mum and Dad the first time their teenager stays out late. ~ Lane Olinghouse
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~ George Bernard Shaw
What man can imagine he may one day achieve. ~ Nancy Hale
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. ~ Anaïs Nin
The man who has no imagination has no wings. ~ Muhammad Ali
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ~ Oscar Wilde
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.What right have we then to depreciate imagination. ~ Carl Jung
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. ~ Albert Einstein
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. ~ William Blake
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. ~ Anatole France
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. ~ Mark Twain
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. ~ Jim Henson
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. ~ John Keats
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly. ~ Lauren Bacall
This world is but a canvas for our imagination. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight. ~ Jane Austen
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything. ~ Plato
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. ~ Joseph Joubert
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. ~ Havelock Ellis
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. ~ Sara Teasdale
It's time to start living the life you've imagined. ~ Henry James
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality. ~ L.M. Montgomery
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ~ John Lennon
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. ~ Jim Henson
Imagination is intelligence with an erection. ~ Victor Hugo
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ~ E.E. Cummings
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde
Imagination is evidence of the divine, and the divine is the imagination of evidence. ~ Erik Banks
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein
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-Exupéry
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. ~ Charles F. Kettering
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and say "Why not?" ~ George Bernard Shaw
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~ C.G. Jung
The man with no imagination has no wings. ~ Muhammad Ali
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ~ Jonathan Swift
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. ~ Ursula Le Guin
Imadination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. ~ Henry Miller
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ~ G.K. Chesterton