704 Quotes Regarding Imagination


Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey

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

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

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

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

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
e. e. cummings

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

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld