Imagination Quotes
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration.
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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?
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
The imagination is man's power over nature.
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.
The world is but a canvas to our imaginations.
We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.
What is now proved was only once imagined.
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
