Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this… — Stephen Schneider
In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis.… — Unknown Author
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. — Ryan Holiday
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand… — Massimo Vignelli
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie… — Wayne Thomas Batson
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer. — David James
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. — Leslie Banks
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My… — James L. Farmer, Jr.
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by… — Angela Davis
Worry is a misuse of your imagination. — Chris Hardwick
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer
We should use our imagination more than our memory. — Shimon Peres
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge… — Annie Dillard
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind… — Terry Tempest Williams
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. — Samuel Johnson
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing… — Stendhal
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short,… — Barack Obama
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of… — Walter Bagehot
At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different — Roberto Unger
I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte. — Don King
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. — Michel de Montaigne
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. — Karl Kraus
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's… — Taisen Deshimaru
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. — Lin Yutang

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