Imagination - Quotes

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. - Charles M. Schwab

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

A prison is never narrow when the imagination can range in it as it will. - Marguerite of Navarre

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. - Napoleon Hill

And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them into shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name. - William Shakespeare

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination. - Unknown

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young. - Henry Ward Beecher

Beware of minimizing imagination by equating it to a game of pretend. Every single creation in existence, from The Great Wall of China to the first flight to the moon, was a by-product of imagination. - Teal

Every great advancement in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Few people have the imagination for reality. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First comes thought, then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. - Napoleon Hill

For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will’, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. - Maxwell Maltz

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history. - Gary Hamel

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. - Norman Vincent Peale

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece. - Margaret Sackville

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

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination. - Napoleon Hill

If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it. - William Arthur Ward

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

Imagination are the seeds of the creative process which flowers when nurtured by dedicated conscientious planning and work. - Harold A. Rothbart

Imagination can take you anywhere you want to go. - Unknown

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. - Maria Montessori

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

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. - Ingrid Bengis

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. - L. Frank Baum 

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature. - Immanuel Kant

Imagination is being able to envision limitless possibilities and alternatives. It is seeking new solutions to old problems. - Leo Buscaglia

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. - Albert Einstein

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood. - Blaise Pascal

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies. - Charles Baudelaire

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless. - Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. - Alfred North Whitehead

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. - Unknown

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

Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavour. - Alex Osborn

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. - Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality. - William Wordsworth

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

Imagination plus innovation equals realization. - Denis Waitley

Imagination rules the world. - Disraeli

Imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience. - Steve Martin

Imagination turns possibilities into reality. - Unknown

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

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination. - Henry David Thoreau

It is through our imagination that we awaken some of its unknown potential. It is the one quality that is invariably attributed to our most inspired, creative people. - Leo Buscaglia

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

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable. - John Masefield

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people. - Jane Addams

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

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller. - Gary Hamel

No one ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. - George Henry Lewes

Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is worse than what we can imagine. - J. M. Coetzee

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination. - William Arthur Ward

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much. - Marcel Proust

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only in man’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. - Joseph Conrad

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary. It is through our imagination that we discern possibilities and options. Yet imagination is no mere blank slate on which we simply inscribe our will. Rather, imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self. - Pat B. Allen

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - Ralph Gerard

Reason respects differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. - Percy Bysse Shelley

Science does not know its debt to imagination. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seeing all possibilities, seeing all that can be done, and how it can be done, marks the power of imagination. - Unknown

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety. - Deepak Chopra

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday’s ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition. - Charles Nicole

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty. - Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes

The greatest gift you were ever given is your imagination. Within it is the capacity to have all  your wishes fulfilled. Look around you. Everything that you can experience with your senses was once in someone’s imagination. - Unknown

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materialising that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building – steadily building. - Robert Collier

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. - Albert Einstein

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

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, – over every idea. - Latin Proverb

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

The imagination is man’s power over nature. - Wallace Stevens

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? Marquis de Sade

The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. - Leonardo da Vinci

The imagination needs doodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering. - Unknown

The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea. - Max Planck

The most important thing for a child to learn is that only some things can be imagined into reality. The most important thing for an adult to learn is that even if it doesn’t happen all the time, things DO get imagined into reality. - John Green

The only faculty by which we can bring the invisible near, is the imagination. Beyond that which the eye sees, beyond that which the ear hears, is a great region in which life is freer and more transcendently glorious than this. The imagination in us finds its field in trying to grasp that great fact. - Reuben Thomas

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities. - Frank Barron

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. - Henry Ward Beecher

The source and centre of all man’s creative power is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. - Robert Collier

The source of genius is imagination alone. - Eugene Delacroix

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. - Alfred North Whitehead

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. - Chuck Palahniuk

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire. - John L. Mason

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. - Henry David Thoreau

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. - Voltaire

There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. - Ralph Marston

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. - Albert Einstein

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Alva Edison

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. - George Eliot

We imagine what we desire; we will what we imagine; and at last we create what we will. - George Bernard Shaw

What feeling, knowledge or will man has depends in the last resort upon what imagination he has. - Søren Kierkegaard

What is now proved was once imagined. - William Blake

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing. - Jules Verne

When temptation knocks, imagination usually answers. - Unknown

When you imagine things, make sure it is something that will help you rise. Your subconscious will accept as true what you imagined and silently guide you to act according to those imaginations. - Unknown

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Without imagination, a man is but a poor creature. His life is like a night without a moon to gild it. - Christian Nestell Bovee

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

You can’t do it unless you imagine it. - George Lucas

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. - Denis Waitley

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person. - Margaret Drabble

Your imagination stands as your own personal laboratory. Here you can rehearse the possibilities, map out plans, and visualize overcoming obstacles. - Unknown

Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not. - Geraint Straker