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Imagination Quotes


If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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 is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Imagination rules the world.

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

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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

Some stories are true that never happened.

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