Imagination Quotes

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

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

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Love is based on imagination.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.