Quotes on Imagination

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

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 were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

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 escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?