Imagination Quotes

"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."

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

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"Imagination rules the world."

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

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

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

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

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

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

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think."

"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

"It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed"

"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."

"Imagination is the true magic carpet."

"In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts."

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself 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."

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."