Imagination Quotes

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. 
Edgar Allan Poe 

Imagination is more important than knowledge. 
Albert Einstein 

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. 
Dr. Seuss 

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? 
Sun Tzu 

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. 
Charlie Chaplin 

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. 
George S. Patton

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. 
Albert Einstein 

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. 
Michelangelo 

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. 
George Orwell 

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. 
Albert Einstein 

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. 
Brian Tracy 

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. 
Mark Twain 

The man who has no imagination has no wings. 
Muhammad Ali 

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! 
Dr. Seuss 

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. 
Orison Swett Marden 

Imagination rules the world. 
Napoleon Bonaparte 

Live out of your imagination, not your history. 
Stephen Covey 

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. 
Henry David Thoreau 

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. 
Pablo Picasso 

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. 
William Shakespeare


One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. 
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. 
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. 
Peter Nivio Zarlenga 

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 

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. 
Carl Sagan 

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. 
H. L. Mencken 

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. 
Gilbert K. Chesterton 

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. 
Chris Brown 

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. 
Epictetus 

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. 
Anatole France 

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. 
Francis Bacon 

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. 
Jessamyn West 

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 

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. 
Immanuel Kant 

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. 
William Butler Yeats 

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. 
Jorge Luis Borges 

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. 
Simone Weil 

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. 
W. Somerset Maugham 

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. 
Simon Pegg 

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it. 
Duane Michals


Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. 
Henry Miller 

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. 
Gilbert Parker 

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. 
James Russell Lowell 

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player. 
Imran Khan 

Some stories are true that never happened. 
Elie Wiesel 

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. 
Duane Michals 

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. 
Elinor Wylie 

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. 
Rita Dove 

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. 
Anne Sullivan Macy 

I imagine that yes is the only living thing. 
e. e. cummings 

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. 
Ursula K. Le Guin 

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. 
Stephen Leacock 

The imagination is man's power over nature. 
Wallace Stevens 

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. 
Calvin Trillin 

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. 
Azar Nafisi 

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. 
Kerry Thornley 

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. 
L. Frank Baum 

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. 
Paul Gauguin 

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. 
Alexander Chase 

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine. 
Frank Leahy