Imagination Quotes - page 3

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. (Gaston Bachelard)
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Émile Coué
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. Cummings
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks
The man with no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. (Francis Bacon)
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
Anthony Robbins
What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.
Richard Feynman
Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.
Stephen King
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
James Russell Lowell
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
Bill Gates
Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.
Francisco Goya
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent van Gogh
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. (Jimi Hendrix)
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.
Arthur Wing Pinero
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Milan Kundera