Imagination Quotes

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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

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?

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.