Great Imagination Quotes:

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Money And Happiness, Money Happiness

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Inspirational, Life, Creativity, Inspire Creativity, Single Man

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Motivational, Spiritual, Art, Creative People, Inspiration And Creativity

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

- Robert Fulghum

source: Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

topic: Love, Life, Death, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Bereavement

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Business, Accomplishment, Sense Of Accomplishment, Lucky Breaks

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

- Robert Collier

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Successful Man, Thinking Ahead

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

- Gloria Steinem

source: "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Poor Planning, Lost Dreams

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Reading, Imagination, Upset, Fantasy Stories, Reading Stories

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Life, Art, Motivation, Creative People, Two Worlds

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Creative Imagination, Creative Thinking

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Art, Creativeness, Creative People

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Good Night, Dream, Live Your Dreams, Irish Author

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

- John Lennon

source: Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), January 13, 2003.

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Imagine That, Surrealism

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.1

topic: Differences, Imagination, Fantasy, Great Imagination

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Social Entrepreneurship, Inspiration To Write

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

- Philip Jose Farmer

topic: Imagination, Muscles, Found, Great Imagination

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

- Bill Gates

topic: Brainstorming, Lateral Thinking, Great Imagination

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.30, Editora Dracaena

topic: Art, Men, Imagination, Great Imagination

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

- Bertrand Russell

source: "Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

topic: Imagination, Poverty, Logic, Great Imagination

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

- Charles M. Schwab

topic: Success, Dream, Men, Lateral Thinking, Creative Imagination

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

- John Berger

topic: Dream, Dog, Philosophy, Hares, Great Imagination

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Dec 05, 2010

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Cassius, Motivational Training

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Inspiring, Meaningful, Imagine That, Inspirational Design

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!". Book by Dr. Seuss, August 21, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking, I Can Read, Creative Thought

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Creativity, Imagination, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Creative Work

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Science, Imagination, Innovation Inspiration, Inventions And Inventors

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Life Wisdom

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Forward In Life, Math Education

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

- John Dewey

topic: Change, Creativity, Science, Science Research, Scientific Research

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (1999). “Choice: Choosing the Proactive Life You Want to Live”, Franklincovey

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Positive Thoughts, Imagine That

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

- Leo Burnett

source: Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

topic: Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking, Creative People, Innovation Inspiration

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Lauren Bacall

topic: Women, Educational, Inspiration, Simile, Great Imagination

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Sunshine, Far Away, Aspiration, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Drug Recovery

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Secret Life, Creativeness

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Knowledge And Learning, Learning Knowledge

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Science, Imagination, Doe, Physical Science, Science Research

Everything you can imagine is real.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Art, Inspiration And Creativity, Imagine That

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

- Michelangelo

topic: Life, Art, Angel, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking, Personal Achievement, Dreams And Reality

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Creativeness, Infinite Power

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Voice, Improve Self Esteem