Famous Imagination Quotes
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Imagination creates reality.
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.
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.
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
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.
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.
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
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.
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.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Faith is spiritualized 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.
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.