Famous Imagination Quotes
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Imagination creates reality.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
