704 Quotes Regarding Imagination


I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
Leslie Banks

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
Timothy Spall

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
Felix Bloch

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
David Garrick

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Robert Doisneau

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Sofia Kovalevskaya

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
Elizabeth Drew

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
Bruno Rossi

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Eduard Hanslick

I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
Natasha Calis

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
Yvonne Craig

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadter

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
Shirley Hazzard

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur Wing Pinero

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
Francis Cabot Lowell

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Lionel Stander

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Theodore Gericault

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
Laurette Taylor

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
Irving Howe

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Terry Wogan