Imagination Quotes
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Anonymous
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
Imagination rules the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Some stories are true that never happened.
- Elie Weisel
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.
- Tuli Kupferberg
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
- Lauren Bacall
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West
Things are only impossible until they’re not.
- Jean Luc Picard
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
- J.G. Gallimore
The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
- James Broughton
I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.
- Pablo Picasso
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
- George Scialabba
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
- James Branch Cabell
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
- Lewis Carroll
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
- Ansel Adams
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- G.K. Chesterton
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
- Joseph Joubert
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
- Orison Swett Marden
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
– William Shakespeare
Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
- Denise Levertov
Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one’s face.
- James D. Finley
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- Simone Weil
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
- Samuel Taylor
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
- Leslie Grimutter
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe
You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
- George Kneller
When I have a terrible need of shall I say the word religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Gogh
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Stephen Leacock
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
- Dr. Seuss
The source and center of all man’s creative power. . . is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
- Robert Collier
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
- Blaise Pascal


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