Imagination Quotes

• The man who has no imagination has no wings.

  Muhammad Ali

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  L. Frank Baum

• To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

  Anatole France

• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

• I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  Theodor Geisel

• Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

  Theodor Geisel

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

• I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

  Duane Michals

• Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it.

  Duane Michals

• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

  George S. Patton

• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  Calvin Trillin

• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

• Some stories are true that never happened.

  Elie Wiesel

• I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

  Peter Nivio Zarlenga

• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

  Joseph Addison

• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

• Imagination rules the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

  Edmund Burke

• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

  Lewis Carroll

• There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

• Live out of your imagination, not your history.

  Stephen Covey

• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  Jack London

• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

  Orison Swett Marden

• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

  Edgar Allan Poe

• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

  William Shakespeare

• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

  Simone Weil

• Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

  Jessamyn West

• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

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