Imagination Quotes - page 4

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Sam Levenson
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
Janet Frame
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Martha Gellhorn
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
William Hazlitt
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal
Imagination is a licensed trespasser it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
George Eliot
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
Truman Capote
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. (Simone Weil)
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace Stevens
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
Wallace Stevens
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens
That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
Robert Frost
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry James
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel Trilling
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Philip Roth
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
George Bernard Shaw
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. (Jonas Salk)
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
Alan Moore
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
Iris Murdoch