Imagination Quotes

We especially need imagination in science.

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

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.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

I have a very vivid imagination.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

True change takes place in the imagination.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

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.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.