Imagination Quotes - page 2

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. (Friedrich Schlegel)
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
Emil Cioran
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. (David Hume)
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.
J. M. W. Turner
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Henry James
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. (Henry Miller)
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
Lily Tomlin
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
Alfred Nobel