Imagination Quotes

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

It's splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

What entertainment damages most in children is creativity, the catalyst of the imagination.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

The brain—is wider than the sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and you—beside.

"Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Imagination is more important the knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If love is an act of imagination, then intimacy is an act of fruition.

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

We read Dover Books, because you can steal from them. The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination. Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

As you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called "real life", I want to extoll the crucial importance of imagination.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.