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Quotes on Imagination

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.
Author: James D. Finley

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Author: Robert Browning

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Author: William Butler Yeats

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
Author: George Scialabba

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Author: Stephen Leacock

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Author: Unknown

Reality is for people who lack imagination.
Author: Unknown

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on.
Author: Unknown

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Author: Edmund Burke

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Author: Ansel Adams

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Author: Francis Bacon

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Author: Dr. Seuss

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Author: Thomas Alva Edison

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Author: Wallace Stevens

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
Author: George Kneller

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." And then do it.
Author: Duane Michals

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
Author: George Bernard Shaw

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
Author: Robert Collier

We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
Author: Speakers Library

Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Author: Samuel Johsnon

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Author: Vincent Van Gogh

When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.
Author: Lewis Carroll

 

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