Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Votes: 5
Carl SaganFish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination. Votes: 3
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron DewarWhat we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket. Votes: 3
Richard P. FeynmanScience is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. Votes: 3
John B. S. HaldaneThat's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it. Votes: 3
Patricia A. McKillipHalf the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Votes: 3
Alice Morse EarleThought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. Votes: 3
Martin Farquhar Tupperlove comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination. Votes: 3
Pearl Mary Teresa CraigieThe imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not. Votes: 3
Katharine Fullerton GerouldThe secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination. Votes: 3
Christian D. LarsonMere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
Charles Sanders PeirceBeing twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw ReymontThe imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
Mary Caroline RichardsChess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
Christian MorgensternA photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.
Francis Meadow SutcliffeThe artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
Pierre-Auguste RenoirSometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.
Sir David Baird, 1st BaronetImagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonIt is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
Arthur Conan DoyleIt is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
George SantayanaImagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
Philip Jose FarmerIntelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.
Romana KryzanowskaIt becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.
Alfonso Gomez-RejonSuspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
Alfred HitchcockImagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
C. Northcote ParkinsonBoth art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Denise LevertovYou're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLiterary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston BachelardI prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
Robert RauschenbergFor me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.
Albert EinsteinLife is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
Havelock EllisThere is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Virginia WoolfLogic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want
Albert EinsteinBecause they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
Eleanor RooseveltIt is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
Gertrude AthertonOne of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.
Harriet DoerrThe imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
Henry Ward BeecherI have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.
Josh McDermittHow to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.
Ralph W. GerardThe imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.
Sarah StrohmeyerWe miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajImagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
Truman CapoteUse your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
W. P. KinsellaPeople don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination
Alexander McQueenA figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
Cullen HightowerNever forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhilldeath - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
Isak DinesenThen I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
Jack PrelutskyThere is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Joseph AddisonI'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
Julianna BaggottBut see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
Richard P. FeynmanThe game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
Richard P. FeynmanThe ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.
Robert WylandA note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
Thelonious MonkImagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.
Alfred North WhiteheadThe imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda UelandImagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.
Chang-Rae LeeI live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
Colm ToibinAnger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
Simone de BeauvoirImagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
Charles F. HaanelThe imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
Cynthia OzickImagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
Guy DavenportThe imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand.
John FruscianteWhatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
John KeatsThe more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.
Julia ChildI would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.
Mason CooleyMAN'S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.
Napoleon HillKeep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Nathaniel HawthorneThere are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.
Sonia Choquettein the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
Wallace Stevens[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
William Carlos WilliamsMy dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
Alan MooreI'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination
Derek LandyPeellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.
Federico FelliniImagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
Haile SelassiePeople of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOne's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
Jasper JohnsWhat gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
Joseph CampbellThe imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
Leonardo da VinciIn the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
Robert BreaultThe function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.
Romare BeardenIs it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?
Saint Francis de SalesWhen something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
Tim Berners-LeeThe music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
A. R. RahmanIt is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
Arthur DoveShame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.
Eloisa JamesThe best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
George EliotMusic is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.
Glenn BrancaI really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.
Glenn FreyThe imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
Henry David ThoreauA woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
Honore de BalzacManners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.
Lynne TrussNo man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
Napoleon HillGrowing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...
Susan SontagI think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
Terence McKennaIt's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.
William C. McCoolTaste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
William HazlittThere comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!
August StrindbergWhen you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.
Debbie FordDance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination...
Doris HumphreyWhat is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
Joyce CaryIn all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor
Kenneth GrantIf we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
Laurence J. PeterCharles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
Lewis CarrollThat which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThrough imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
Stephen CoveyWhere my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Winston ChurchillPart of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
Alice SeboldThinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment
AristotleEverything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebodyâs imagination.
Astrid LindgrenPhilosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Daniel DennettI deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
Eric Jerome DickeyPurity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.
F.B. MeyerWasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
Ian McewanThis is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.
Jeremy BegbieI don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
Joseph HellerReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules VerneThe cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
Ken AdamI think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax
Richard P. FeynmanThe magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world ...
Wallace StevensCan art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
Aharon AppelfeldLet her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.
Aiden Wilson TozerA picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.
Edgar DegasPainting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.
Joan MiroYour Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world.
Neville GoddardIt is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
Pearl Mary Teresa CraigieWe are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca the ElderSet your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.
Wallace D. WattlesWhile the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries
Wayne Dyer