Imagination Quotes

Napoleon Hill said The Imagination is the most powerful most miraculous inconceivably powerful force that the world's ever known

~ Bob Proctor

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we know that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

~ Wendell Berry

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

~ P.k. Shaw

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

~ Lemony Snicket

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

~ Hafiz

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.

~ Edward Albee

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.

~ A. Lynn

If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one’s own imagination.

~ Meshack Asare

Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.

~ Arundhati Roy

Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it is their almost tactile quality that leads readers to sculpt images of the writers who use them. These images are then interrogated, mocked, congratulated, or dismissed, depending on the context of the reading and the disposition of the reader.

~ Sam Wineburg

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.

~ Paul Lockhart

Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.

~ Orrin Woodward

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.

~ H.g. Wells

Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.

~ Orrin Woodward

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers— most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people— all the more insidious and insincere.

~ Azar Nafisi

Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals

~ John Mark Reynolds

Don’t jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire.

~ Assegid Habtewold

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

~ Marilynne Robinson

Texts are not processed as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.

~ Sam Wineburg

Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.

~ Azar Nafisi

Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise.

~ Marilynn Dawson

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Every book is a world.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....

~ Tennessee Williams

Whatever man imagines is possible

~ Julie Andrews Edwards

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think; it is the quality thought that makes the difference - not just the quality of logical thinking, but of imaginative thinking. And our greatest thinkers, those who have radically changed our world, have always arrived at their truths by dreaming them; they are first fantasized, and only then subjected to proof.

~ Leonard Bernstein

I could burn this place downAs many times as I'd like in my mind,Without any sympathy For the girl or her motherWho live beneath me

~ Matthew Little

Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.

~ Marlen Haushofer

There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.

~ Julie Andrews Edwards

Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.

~ Russell Kirk

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is a sacred place.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way into this marshy, pleasant terrain. You struggle against that push, and start to feel your stomach protest. It's not so much even a type of seriousness as it is a circumstance, into which you pass by slow degrees. I've never seen this sufficiently examined. It mutates into a less-unreal reality that still seems different, somehow, than being fully present. Self hate is rarely unconditional.

~ Darin Strauss

And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of any earthly moment as the stage and props for Heaven to reveal itself. There is now nothing ordinary. Everything is being used and spun out for His vast scheme and in His eternal economy, nothing is wasted. Suddenly, all the myriad moments and minutiae of a lifetime show their orchestration —there was nothing that did not lead to this! They look over all their time to find that His redemption has always been rushing, swooping, swerving through their experience, racing to and fro to intervene and infuse Grace.

~ Geoffrey Wood

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

~ Geoffrey Wood

The power of imagination is a miracle.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

~ Paul Russell