Quotes about Imagination

68 quotes about Imagination

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Quote by Camille Paglia about imagination

Imagination creates reality.

Imagination creates reality.

Quote by Richard Wagner about imagination

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always...

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about imagination

Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him...

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

Quote by Oscar Wilde about imagination

The imagination is the beginning of creation.

The imagination is the beginning of creation.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw about imagination

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about imagination

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited;...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about imagination

Works of imagination should be written in very plain...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about imagination

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Quote by Muhammad Ali about imagination

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the...

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Quote by Edward Abbey about imagination

I've thought about writing in other genres, but my...

I've thought about writing in other genres, but my imagination just doesn't seem to lead me in other directions.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about imagination

No one will ever imagine character more deeply or more firmly than Homer did in, say, Achilles; but Apollonius was the man who showed how epic as well as drama may use the nice minutiae of psychological imagination.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about imagination

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a...

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about imagination

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.

Quote by John Adams about imagination

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant...

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Quote by John Adams about imagination

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.

Quote by Joseph Addison about imagination

The level of our success is limited only by our...

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Quote by Aesop about imagination

Imagination rules the world.

Imagination rules the world.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about imagination

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about imagination

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about imagination

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