Imagination Quotes

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They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Unknown Author
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that. — Lewis Grizzard
The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise… — Rebecca Solnit
Flying is done largely with the imagination. — Wolfgang Langewiesche
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen… — Wolfgang Langewiesche
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create… — Vladimir Kramnik
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the… — Philip Wylie
When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to… — Stanley Kubrick
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. — Alfred Hitchcock
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if… — Jorge Luis Borges
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. — Christopher Fry
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. — Fernando Pessoa
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless… — Andre Breton
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and… — Charles Baudelaire
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far… — George Leigh Mallory
Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not knowâ€”that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating… — Daniel Gilbert
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator… — Andrew Motion
I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild. — KT Tunstall
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred… — Adrienne Rich
Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity… — Mark Zuckerberg

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