Top 100 Imagination Is Quotes
#1. He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry James
#2. The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
Napoleon Hill
#3. Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Ken Robinson
#4. But each poetic world is not a pure invention, it is a possibility of nature.
Imagination is itself immanent in the real. It is not a state. It is human existence itself.
Gaston Bachelard
#5. The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
Cynthia Ozick
#8. This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.
Stephen Baxter
#11. Imagination ... is not a Disney theme park, but is a incredible force that when unleashed ... can help greatly better humanity.
Timothy Pina
#12. The faculty of imagination is often lightly spoken of as of no real importance, often decried as mischievous, as in some ways the antithesis of practical sense, and yet it ranks with reason and conscience as one of the supreme characteristics by which man is distinguished from
Bill Dedman
#13. The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#14. The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Robert Doisneau
#16. Keep a clear picture of your goals in mind.
The power of imagination is unlimited.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
Rita Dove
#18. Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.
Carlos Roche
#21. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Deborah Brodie
#22. I don't like that sort of school ... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged ... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.
Charles Dickens
#23. What I'm looking for is a self-promoting film; a movie which immediately gets people's imagination is something I can promote - a project which writes its own publicity.
Jeremy Thomas
#24. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind.
Debasish Mridha
#27. The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.
Larry J. Sabato
#28. All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.
W. H. Auden
#30. I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
John Irving
#33. Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be--it is everything.
Dalton Frey
#34. He who doesn't fear his own imagination ... is not worthy to envision.
Lionel Suggs
#35. Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.
Christopher Koch
#37. It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
Matt Reeves
#38. Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
Albert Einstein
#39. Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism
Robert Holdstock
#40. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.
Keith Donohue
#41. When I began my career as a writer I thought it would be fun to put my imagination to the page. Now I am finding out that my imagination is able to fill in those pesky holes called details all on its own, and then neglecting to tell me how it did it.
Jonathan Bender
#42. Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
Gaston Bachelard
#43. Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
William Walker Atkinson
#44. Your imagination is critical to discovering your dream.
Bil Cornelius
#45. Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#47. Imagination is the stepping-stone for the new exciting creations.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
Oscar Wilde
#49. The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#50. Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
Ken Robinson
#51. Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
William Irwin Thompson
#52. Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.
Michael O'Brien
#53. Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.
Tony Robbins
#54. The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
Joe Haldeman
#56. I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
Dawn French
#57. The power of imagination is infinite.
John Muir
#58. True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.
Ernest Holmes
#59. Imagination is like muscle. If you don't exercise it, it shrinks.
Tim Campbell
#60. Imagination is no Joke, But a Wish
Jan Jansen
#61. Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
Oscar Wilde
#63. If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry
Thomas Cole
#64. The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
Bryan Cranston
#66. Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.
Mark Batterson
#67. Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
Wallace Stevens
#68. 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
#69. We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
Madeleine L'Engle
#70. Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
Guy Davenport
#71. The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.
S.A. Tawks
#72. Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.
Dolora Zajick
#73. Our imagination is God's ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can't see only because we've yet to create them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#74. God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.
Erwin McManus
#75. The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
Neil Gaiman
#76. The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
Napoleon Hill
#77. Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.
Francis Spufford
#78. A reader's own imagination is a far more powerful form of CGI than anything any movie can provide because it's unique. In your own imagination, you can enter all sorts of worlds, and they are unique to you because no other reader will interpret a book the same way.
Mark Billingham
#79. The imagination is the most real world that we know
because we each know it first hand.
John Frusciante
#80. A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.
Anne Fadiman
#81. I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we'd better figure out the answer to my question-quick.
Tom Peters
#82. Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.
Brian Jacques
#84. Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
Julianna Baggott
#85. The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
Nicholas Ray
#86. Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
Daniel Dennett
#87. Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.
Jaeda DeWalt
#88. Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
David Mura
#90. If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#91. Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
Charles Baudelaire
#92. Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.
Neville Goddard
#93. You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.
Chris Prentiss
#95. I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax
Richard Feynman
#96. Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future
moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
Martha Beck
#99. My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.
Gillian Flynn
#100. The mere act of dreaming is a vitalizing, life-affirming endeavor. As it turns out, using your imagination is very, very good for your wellbeing. Einstein believed that imagination was even more important than knowledge itself.
Danielle LaPorte
