The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop on imagination
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. Edgar Degas on imagination
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon. Terry Brooks on imagination
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley on imagination
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk on 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. Camille Paglia on imagination
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Maxwell Maltz on imagination
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Percy Bysshe Shelley on imagination
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. William Irwin Thompson on imagination
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. Ludwig Wittgenstein on imagination
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination. Hedy Lamarr on imagination
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. Christian Nestell Bovee on imagination
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. Marquis de Sade on imagination
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. Terry Pratchett on imagination
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon on imagination
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. Bryant H. McGill on imagination
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it. Karl Lagerfeld on imagination
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 on imagination
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Lord Chesterfield on imagination
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on imagination