IMAGINATION QUOTES V

quotations about imagination

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.

JOHN L. MASON

You're Born an Original


Springing from the provinces and principalities of the unconscious, imagination takes us from what we know to the infinite realm of what we do not know.

WILLIAM HOFFMAN & LEO FURCHT

The Biologist's Imagination


Imagination has great power. If you make a picture in the mind, the vibrations of the body may adjust to it if the will is directed that way, as in thoughts of health or sickness.

ELSA BARKER

Letters from a Living Dead Man

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Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

The Butlerian Jihad


I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination--what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth--whether it existed before or not.

JOHN KEATS

letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov. 22, 1817


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

JOHN BERGER

Keeping a Rendezvous


Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

MARCEL PROUST

The Captive & The Fugitive

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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

ANAIS NIN

Henry and June


Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed -- or cursed -- with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

STELLA BENSON

I Pose

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Imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

STEVE MARTIN

An Object of Beauty


You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

MARGARET DRABBLE

The Paris Review, fall/winter 1978


Imagination is more important than knowledge.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

On Science


Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

RICHARD FEYNMAN

The Character of Physical Law


Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

RICHARD RORTY

introduction, Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers


The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life


Without imagination a man is but a poor creature. His life is like a night without a moon to gild it.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

ALGERNON BLACKWOOD

Selected Tales


This is the very coinage of your brain:
This bodiless creation ecstasy.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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Imagination can be developed. Those who have little may develop much. Those who have much may develop more.

H. W. PERCIVAL

"Imagination", The Word