IMAGINATION QUOTES

quotations about imagination

Imagination quote

The imagination is man’s power over nature.

WALLACE STEVENS

"Adagia," Opus Posthumous


You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will be as one.

JOHN LENNON

"Imagine"

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Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

JOHN MUIR

"The National Parks and Forest Reservations", Sierra Club Bulletin, January 1896


The man who has no imagination has no wings.

MUHAMMAD ALI

Newsweek, 1975


Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. Men of bright fancies may in this respect be compared to those angels whom the scripture represents as covering their eyes with their wings.

DAVID HUME

A Treatise of Human Nature

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Eleonora"


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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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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.

HENRY MILLER

Sexus


It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions, to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of the dungeon.

WASHINGTON IRVING

The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon

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But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.

EUDORA WELTY

New York Times Book Review, Mar. 24, 1974


The bird Imagination,
That flies so far, that dies so soon;
Her wings are colored like the sun,
Her breast is colored like the moon.

ELINOR WYLIE

"The Falcon"


Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

JULES DE GAUTIER

attributed, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes


Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

LOUIS ARAGON

Paris Peasant


Imagination, that magic glass
That colours all the pictures of the brain.

C. B. LANGSTON

"Old Age"


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.

L. FRANK BAUM

intro, The Lost Princess of Oz


Our imagination flies: we are its shadow on the earth.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

The Sea and the Honeycomb: A Book of Tiny Poems

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Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


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

J. K. ROWLING

speech to Harvard Alumni Association, 2008


You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

MARK TWAIN

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Tags: Mark Twain


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden