Quotes About Imagination

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


Imagination is the eye of the soul.  ~ Joseph Joubert


Imagination is more imortant than knowledge.  ~ Albert Einstein


The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.  ~ Oscar Wilde


Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.  ~ Terri Guillemets


I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.  ~ Pablo Picasso


Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.  ~ Ingrid Bengis


We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.  ~ George Eliot


Everything you can imagine is real.  ~ Pablo Picasso


The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.  ~ Publilius Syrus


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


Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.  ~ Lilt Tomlin


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


My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.  ~ Ursula K. Le Guin


Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.  ~ Francis Bacon


The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.  ~ Jane Austen


What is now proved was only once imagined.  ~ William Blake


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


What man can imagine he may one day achieve.  ~ Nancy Hale


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


Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.  ~ Oscar Wilde


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


All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.What right have we then to depreciate imagination.  ~ Carl Jung


People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.  ~ Oscar Wilde


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


Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.  ~ Alfred North Whitehead


Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.  ~ Mark Twain


As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.  ~ Jim Henson


I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.  ~ John Keats


Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.  ~ Lauren Bacall


He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. ~ Joseph Joubert


Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.  ~ Havelock Ellis


Imagination is evidence of the divine, and the divine is the imagination of evidence.  ~ Erik Banks


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


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