Imagination Quotes

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

~ Marcel Proust

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

~ William Butler Yeats

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

~ Simone Weil

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

~ Paul Wolfowitz

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

~ Ray Bradbury

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

~ Karen Thompson Walker

As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your imagination.

~ Anushka Sharma

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 to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

~ J.k. Rowling

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

~ Susan Sarandon

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

~ Mary Gaitskill

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

~ Émile Coué

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

~ Luis Buñuel

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

~ Teena Marie

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

~ Ray Bradbury

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

~ Khalil Gibran

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

~ Lafcadio Hearn

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

~ E. E. Cummings

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

~ Ramana Maharshi

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

~ David Harsanyi

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

~ Deepak Chopra

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

~ Michael Leunig

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

~ Antonio Tabucchi

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

~ Ellen Datlow

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

~ Dawn French

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

~ Paul Keating

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

~ Paul Farmer

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.

~ Margaret Geller

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

~ John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

~ John Keats

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

~ Marquis De Sade

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

~ Joseph Conrad

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

~ Alan Watts

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

~ Alfred A. Montapert

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin