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Imagination

See also Creativity

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Any successful journey begins by packing your luggage full of imagination.--Kathrine Palmer Peterson
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.--Daniel Boorstin
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.--Carl Jung
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.--Albert Szent-Gyorgi (in The Scientist Speculates ed. by Good)
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.--Mae Jemison
Dragons will wander about
the waste places,
and the phoenix will soar
from her nest of fire
into the air.
We shall lay our hands
upon the Basilisk,
and see the jewel
in the toad's head.
Champing his gilded oats,
the hippogriff will stand
in our stalls,
and over our heads
will float the bluebird,
singing of beautiful and
impossible things,
of things that are lovely
and that never happened,
of things that are not
and that should be.--Oscar Wilde (The Decay of Lying)
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.--John Dewey (The Quest for Certainty)
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.--Barbara G. Harrison
The Gleam of an heroic act,
Such strange illumination--
The Possible's slow fuse it lit
By the Imagination.--Emily Dickinson (Poem #1867)
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building-steadily building.--Robert Collier
The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differrently.--Ira Erwin
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.--Joseph Joubert (Pensées)
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.--Albert Einstein
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -
That hope always triumphs over experience -
That laughter is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is
stronger than death.--Robert Fulghum
I doubt the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, that child would grow up to be an eggplant.--Ursula K. LeGuin ("Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" Language of the Night)
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.--William Arthur Ward
If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.--Robert Duvall
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"--Bill Bradley (Values of the Game)
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.--Mary Caroline Richards
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than the young.--W. Somerset Maugham
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. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.--L. Frank Baum
Imagination is as good as many voyages--and how much cheaper.--George W. Curtis
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.--Irving Howe ("Characters: Are They Like People?" A Critics Notebook)
Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.--Donald Curtis
Imagination is the eye of the soul.--Joseph Joubert
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.--Lauren Bacall
Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity.--Richard Laurence Peterson
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.--Jules de Gaultier
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.--Shunryu Suzuki
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination...If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.--Annie Dillard
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.--Ursula LeGuin
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.--Vincent van Gogh
It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe.--Ian J Davenport (Univ. of Reading, UK)
The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.--Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.--Robert H. Schuller
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.--Benjamin Disraeli
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.--Albert Einstein
One of the virtues of the very young is that you don't let facts get in the way of your imagination.--Sam Levinson
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.--Margaret Atwood
So you see, imagination needs coddling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.--Brenda Ueland
Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have imagine. -- David Almond
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.--Alice Walker
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.--William Blake
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.--Marilyn King
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.--Donald Curtis
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.--Albert Einstein
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.--Emile Coue
The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else's life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives that somehow we hadn't been able to see before.--Katherine Patterson
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.--Jean Jacques Rousseau
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.--Mark Twain