Imagination Quotes

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

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

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Some stories are true that never happened.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.