Quotes About Imagination

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