Live out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey on 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. Joseph Addison on imagination
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. Orison Swett Marden on imagination
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 on imagination
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. H. L. Mencken on imagination
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. Simone Weil on imagination
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. Henry Miller on imagination
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. Epictetus on imagination
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Gilbert K. Chesterton on imagination
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges on imagination
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 on imagination
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. William Butler Yeats on imagination
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Edmund Burke on imagination
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant on imagination
I imagine that yes is the only living thing. e. e. cummings on imagination
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it. Duane Michals on imagination