Quotes
Quotes about Imagination
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
The human race is governed by its imagination. [Fr., C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain.]
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein.
