Imagination Quotes

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

~ Carl Sagan

My perception of your beauty was far more erotic than your real beauty! Am I to be blamed for taking too much effort on my part in beautifying you or did you fail in seducing me?

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

~ Sigmund Freud

Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.

~ R.a.delmonico

Learning to open the taps of your imagination leads to abundance & success unlimited.

~ Auliq Ice

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. (A Father's Story)

~ Andre Dubus

Don't be a martyr to your imagination.

~ Sheridan Hay

Our imagination is God’s ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can’t see only because we’ve yet to create them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation...to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

~ Virginia Woolf

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

~ John Keats

When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For all the girls in all the worlds.May you feel strength with your first breath,realize your unlimited potential for greatness on your second, and follow your dreams on your third.

~ C.s. O'kelly

Once an angel said to the dreamer, You will get whatever you want in your life in this world and from this world.

~ Newpostcard

Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word Doubt makes a lot of stuff interesting.

~ Deyth Banger

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

~ Joy Williams

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

~ N.k. Jemisin

If imagination is what enables us to conceive of and enjoy stories other than our own, and if empathy is the act of taking other people’s stories seriously, certainty deadens or destroys both qualities. When we are caught up in our own convictions, other people’s stories—which is to say, other people—cease to matter to us.

~ Kathryn Schulz

I told my imagination to discontinue communication with my thoughts.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.

~ Ray Bradbury

Worry is using the incredible gift of your imagination to infuse life into something you never want to see in your world.

~ Elle Sommer

Wonder is a beautiful bliss.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well,... so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagination. If I had the same imagination I won't sleep too!

~ Deyth Banger

Wondering is a positive madness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Look beyond what you see.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have only one life. So, live it happy with whatever conditions you have. Don't let others destroy your imagination and the world you are living in, and don't even listen to what they have to say about you. When you give more weight to other's opinions than your own thoughts, you will end up living their unattainable life instead of yours..

~ Not A Book

Eureka can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen idea or the expression of a magic moment that throws us into a new world. It acts like a radiant sunbeam that comes out of the blue and illuminates a dim past, opening a new, dynamic horizon. It may even be a trivial but lucky encounter with new friends, who let us be what we are in our imagination: original and undifferentiated. (“Waiting for Eureka” )

~ Erik Pevernagie

When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. (Back garden of a dream)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

~ J.k. Rowling

Wonder is an open heaven to wisdom.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why is it, I wonder, that Sigmar felt compelled to burden you with such poor imaginations? Very well. Judicate me, if you can.

~ David Guymer

What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.

~ Michael R. French

People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. ( The hidden sides of his character )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

~ Gregory Bateson

What we glean from travellers' vivid descriptions has a special charm, whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination, such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.

~ Alexander Von Humboldt

Cynicism always comes clothed in realism. The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

~ Walter Brueggemann

Three things to help keep your brain cells awake and alert ... drink plenty of clean water, get plenty of deep sleep, and let your imagination soar to places it's never dared venture.

~ Toni Sorenson

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

~ Paul Monette

Through the imagination and the human sense of creativity, the book will examine not only raw clinical data but philosophical perspectives as well. As within many moral fables, animals will be used, at times, to convey a a fundamental truth of human nature. More simply stated, animals that elicit human empathetic responses, will be examined in a religious context. So, starting with cats, dogs and ultimately other primates, as moral experiments of imagination, we can perhaps understand differing cognitive processes that could have shaped our religious purview. It might be even stated that they should shape our opinion, especially in a reevaluation of the spiritual present and coming future. When this happens, it will help humanity create a unique pristine outlook on its religious traditions.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

The missions were always changing- sometimes collecting jars of rain, paper bags of hiccups, adopting lost moonbeams and folding them into cake batter. Or perhaps investigating glittering slug trails left in the moonlight, finding the owners of abandoned buttons, or playing the sousaphone for caterpillars still in their cocoons.

~ Michelle Cuevas