Imagination Quotes
– “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-Exupery
– “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden
– “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.” – Joseph Addison
– “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West
– “I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” – Peter Nivio Zarlenga
– “I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” – Duane Michals
– “I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
– “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Theodor Geisel
– “I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” – Calvin Trillin
– “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso
– “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo
– “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton
– “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil
– “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led – “Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” – L. Frank Baum
– “Imagination rules the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
– “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan
– “It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” – Paul Gauguin
– “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll
– “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
– “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” – Stephen Covey