Motivational Quotes

Imagination

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Imagination

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Stevens, Wallace

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Ruskin, John

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Brown, Les

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Conrad, Joseph

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Cornwall, Barry

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Miller, Henry

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Weil, Simone

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Bierstedt, Robert

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert, Joseph

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

Blake, William

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Bernhard, Sandra

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Bacall, Lauren

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Johnson, Samuel

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When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Speare, Grace

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Stevens, Wallace

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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Berger, John

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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis

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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling

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By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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It is important to rely on your imagination for your sense of humor and your memory for your truths. Not the other way around.

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Albert Einstein

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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

Einstein, Albert

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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Breton, Andre

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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.

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Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!

Collier, Robert

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How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Sade, Marquis De