Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun. — Wavy Gravy
Imagination begins when it' s raining too hard to go out and play and you become really absorbed in something you would never have thought… — Joan D. Chittister
Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon… — Jane Porter
Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable. — John Masefield
The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire. — John Landis Mason
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes. — Henry David Thoreau
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language… — Carol Ann Duffy
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for… — Bruce Greenwood
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last… — James Weldon Johnson
Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step. — Esther Hicks
None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades. — Paul Rogat Loeb
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct,… — Alice Walker
Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species. — Erma Bombeck
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed… — Tom Robbins
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us… — Terence McKenna
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it… — Sufjan Stevens
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people… — Robert Creeley
There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not… — Rajneesh
If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream… — Billy Joel
Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination… — Walter Scott
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and… — George Sand
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories. — Jeremy Northam
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. — Rhona Mitra

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