imagination quotes

• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. (George Bernard Shaw) [imagination/creation/desire/willpower]
• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. (William Maugham) [imagination/exercise/more]
• Memory and imagination help [a man] as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. (William Morris) [memory/imagination/thoughts/thoughts]
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein) [imagination/more/knowledge]
• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Albert Einstein) [logic/willpower/imagination/willpower]
• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. (William Blake) [imagination/universe/shadow]
• Faith is spiritualized imagination. (Henry Ward Beecher) [faith/imagination]
• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. (Henry Miller) [imagination/god]
• Where there is no imagination there is no horror. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [imagination/horror]
• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination -- everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. (John Adams) [imagination/wonder]
• The man who has no imagination has no wings. (Muhammad Ali) [imagination/wings]
• Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. (Lauren Bacall) [imagination]
• Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. (Francis Bacon) [imagination]
• Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future. (Jean Baudrillard) [imagination/imagination/form/reality]
• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. (Henry Ward Beecher) [imagination]
• 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? (William Blake) [imagination/high/more/imagination]
• The human race is governed by its imagination. ( Napoleon I) [human/imagination]
• Imagination rules the world. ( Napoleon I) [imagination]
• 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. (Andre Breton) [imagination/state/slavery/happiness]
• 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. (Luis Bunuel) [chance/imagination/thing/people]
• Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. (Thomas Carlyle) [imagination]
• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. (Thomas Carlyle) [imagination/matter/company/understanding]
• People can die of mere imagination. (Geoffrey Chaucer) [people/imagination]
• To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [imagination]
• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. (John Dewey) [science/imagination]
• It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. (Benjamin Disraeli) [revolution/acts/imagination]
• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. (Benjamin Disraeli) [imagination/opponent]
• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition. (Umberto Eco) [imagination/taste/past/philosophy]
• All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein) [change/imagination/imagination/more]
• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. (Albert Einstein) [intelligence/knowledge/imagination]
• 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. (Albert Einstein) [power/imagination/think/language]

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