Imagination Quotes

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Anonymous

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The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Imagination rules the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning

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Some stories are true that never happened.
- Elie Weisel

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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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When patterns are broken new worlds emerge.
- Tuli Kupferberg

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
- Lauren Bacall

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West

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Things are only impossible until they’re not.
- Jean Luc Picard

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

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
- J.G. Gallimore

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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
- James Broughton

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

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Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
- George Scialabba

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Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
- James Branch Cabell

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It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
- Lewis Carroll

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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
- Ansel Adams

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

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

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
- Joseph Joubert

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

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

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Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
- Denise Levertov

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Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one’s face.
- James D. Finley

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

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
- Samuel Taylor

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Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
- Leslie Grimutter

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

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe

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You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

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

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To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
- George Kneller

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When I have a terrible need of shall I say the word religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Gogh

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

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

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The source and center of all man’s creative power. . . is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
- Robert Collier

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
- Blaise Pascal

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