Imagination Quotes

4096 Imagination quotes by 2387 unique authors

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing… — Washington Irving
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. — Gelett Burgess
I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me. — George Santayana
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity… — George Santayana
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. — George Henry Lewes
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The… — Albert Einstein
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed. — Mark Twain
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less… — Charles Dudley Warner
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. — George Santayana
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. — Kerry Thornley
Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness. — Ken Robinson
Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination. — Ken Robinson
We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We… — Marianne Williamson
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. — Denis Waitley
Faith is spiritualized imagination. — Henry Ward Beecher

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