Quotes about imagination

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

Mccartney, Paul on imagination   

"We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment."

Mcdonald, John on imagination   

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money."

Mencken, H. L. on imagination   

"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."

Meredith, George on imagination   

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

Miller, Henry on imagination   

"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."

Morrison, Alex on imagination   

"The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on imagination   

"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."

Nabokov, Vladimir on imagination   

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

Newton, Sir Isaac on imagination
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"I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality."

Nicklaus, Jack on imagination   

"It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income."

Orr, Leonard on imagination   

"Imagination decides everything."

Pascal, Blaise on imagination   

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world."

Pascal, Blaise on imagination   

"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"

Pavese, Cesare on imagination   

"Celebrate what you want to see more of."

Peters, Thomas J. on imagination   

"Everything you can imagine is real."

Picasso, Pablo on imagination
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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

Poe, Edgar Allan on imagination
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"It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images."

Pound, Ezra on imagination   

"Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much."

Proust, Marcel on imagination   

"I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money."

Rainbow, George Weiss on imagination
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"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."

Richards, Mary Caroline on imagination   

"It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest."

Ruskin, John on imagination   

"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."

Ruskin, John on imagination
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"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

Ruskin, John on imagination   

"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind."

Ruskin, John on 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?"

Sade, Marquis De on imagination   

"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."

Sade, Marquis De on imagination   

"Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks."

Saying on imagination   

"Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities."

Schuller, Robert H. on imagination   

"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."

Schwartz, Robert L on imagination   

"Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself."

Serling, Rod on imagination   

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."

Shaw, George Bernard on imagination
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"People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories."

Shaw, P.K. on imagination   

"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on imagination   

"When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience."

Speare, Grace on imagination   

"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."

Stevens, Wallace on imagination   

"The imagination is man's power over nature."

Stevens, Wallace on imagination   

"By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true."

Success Magazine on imagination   

"Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way."

Tesla, Nikola on imagination   

"I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?"

Thoreau, Henry David on imagination
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