Quotes about imagination

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Ali, Muhammad on imagination
10 fans of this quote   

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

Anderson, Marian on imagination
4 fans of this quote   

"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on imagination
8 fans of this quote   

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."

Bacall, Lauren on imagination   

"To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

Bach, Richard on imagination   

"Man is an imagining being."

Bachelard, Gaston on imagination   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on imagination
3 fans of this quote   

"Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy."

Belazy, Madame on imagination   

"Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance."

Bell, E. T. on imagination   

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

Berger, John on imagination   

"If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968."

Bernhard, Sandra on imagination   

"The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am."

Bierstedt, Robert on imagination
4 fans of this quote   

"To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?"

Blake, William on imagination   

"What is now proved was only once imagined."

Blake, William on imagination
5 fans of this quote   

"The human race is governed by its imagination."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on imagination   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"Imagination rules the world."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on imagination
5 fans of this quote   

"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."

Brande, Dorothea on imagination   

"To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be."

Breton, Andre on imagination   

"The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there."

Brown, Gene on imagination   

"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."

Brown, Les on imagination
7 fans of this quote   

"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

Bunuel, Luis on imagination
3 fans of this quote   

"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."

Carlyle, Thomas on imagination   

"Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward."

Carlyle, Thomas on imagination   

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."

Carson, Rachel on imagination
3 fans of this quote   

"People can die of mere imagination."

Chaucer, Geoffrey on imagination   

"The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing 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."

Collier, Robert on imagination   

"Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build."

Collier, Robert on imagination
4 fans of this quote   

"See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession."

Collier, Robert on imagination
3 fans of this quote   

"Pictures help you to form the mental mold..."

Collier, Robert on imagination   

"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!"

Collier, Robert on imagination   

"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."

Connelly, Billy on imagination   

"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."

Conrad, Joseph on imagination   

"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."

Cooley, Charles Horton on imagination   

"Death is the tyrant of the imagination."

Cornwall, Barry on imagination   

"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."

Coue, Emile on imagination   

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

Covey, Stephen R. on imagination
5 fans of this quote   

"We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it."

Curtis, Donald on imagination   

"I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and emotions associated with it. They pre-lived it before they had it. And the sharp, sensory vision became a powerful driving force in their lives."

Devore, Stephen on imagination   

"The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated."

Douglas, Mack R. on imagination
3 fans of this quote   

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

Einstein, Albert on imagination
35 fans of this quote