Imagination Quotes

"Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
Dr. Seuss

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
Stephen R. Covey

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."
Henry David Thoreau

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Joseph Joubert

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
John Lennon

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

"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
Lauren Bacall

"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
Thomas Edison

"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person."
Frank Barron

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
Picasso

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali

"Everything you can imagine is real."
Picasso

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

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Picasso

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
G.K. Chesterton

"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
Duane Michals

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

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
Tom Stoppard

"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."
Jules Verne

"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

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
Henry Ward Beecher

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."
Albert Einstein

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
Charles F. Kettering