Imagination Quotes

Emerson

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

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

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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

Albert Einstein

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

Duane Michals

We think to small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Mao Tse-Tung

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maxwell Maltz

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

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

Simone Weil

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

The source and center of all man's creative power. . . is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Robert Collier

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

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

Sun Tzu

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.

James D. Finley

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung

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.

Dr. Seuss


Henry David Thoreau Quote: Our truest life is when we are in dreams awkae...

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?”

George Bernard Shaw

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather than die than think.

George Bernard Shaw

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.  

Anna Freud

When you cease to dream you cease to live. 

Malcolm S. Forbes

The empires of the future are empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

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