75 quotes
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
— John Muir
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“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-Exupéry
“You see things and you say why. But I dream things that never were and I say why not.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Imagination is more important than knowledge for while knowledge defines all we currently know wonder opens us to everything”
— Albert Einstein
“I dwell in possibility.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire.”
— Neville Goddard
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee and revery”
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
— Pablo Picasso
“To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality”
— bell hooks
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
“The power of imagination makes us infinite and the power of kindness makes us eternal”
“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“The soul never thinks without a mental image.”
— Aristotle
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination embraces the entire world stimulating progress toward peace.”
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality and wonder is its finest ammunition”
— Lewis Carroll
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
— Voltaire
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine and time proves them right”
— Alan Turing
“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.”
— Joseph Joubert
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
— Mark Twain
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say Im a dreamer but Im not the only one.”
— John Lennon
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality but imagination also gives us the gift of wonder”
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“I think nature has imagination and wonder far greater than the imagination of any person”
— Richard Feynman
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
— James Russell Lowell
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.”
— Unknown
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Everything you can imagine is real and everything real is filled with wonder if you look closely enough”
“One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.”
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
— H. L. Mencken
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The imagination is the spur of delights; all depends upon it; it is the mainspring of everything.”
— Marquis de Sade
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“I dwell in possibility”
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal and time will show it filled with wonder and imagination”
— Ada Lovelace
“Imagination is everything it is the preview of coming attractions and faith turns those previews into reality”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
— John Dewey
“The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.”
— Terence
“In the tea room it is left for each guest in his imagination to complete the total effect in relation to himself”
— Okakura Kakuzo
“An idea is salvation by imagination”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited whereas imagination encircles the world”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
— Immanuel Kant
“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
— Patricia Highsmith
“You see things; and you say why? But I dream things that never were; and I say why not?”
“Everything you can imagine is real”
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”
— Tony Robbins
“An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.”
“Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.”
— George Lucas
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