Quotes on Imagination

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses.

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there no limits.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.