Imagination Quotes

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

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.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.

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

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.