Imagination Creativity Quotes:

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946)

topic: Imagination Creativity, Consistency, Oscars, Imagination And Creativity

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, God, Intelligence Services, Knowledge And Ignorance

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Creativity, Imagination, Anxiety, Creative Imagination, Imagination Creativity

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

- Carl Jung

topic: Love, Leadership, Fun, Memories Dreams Reflections, Mind Playing

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

- Albert Einstein

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

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

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Carpe Diem, Imagination, Possibility, Creative Imagination, Fuse

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

- Gerald Jampolsky

topic: Inspirational Life, Self, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Creative Imagination

Creativity can solve almost any problem,

- George Lois

source: George Lois (2008). “George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea”, Editions Assouline

topic: Creativity, Problem, Solve, Inspire Creativity, Copywriting

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Lauren Bacall

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

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

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

- Linus Pauling

topic: Inspiring, Education, Business, Inspiration To Write, Logical Ideas

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

- Theodore Levitt

topic: Change, Creativity, Thinking, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

- Rajneesh

topic: Life, Dance, Mean, Creative People, Art And Creativity

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Grad, Imagine That

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom, Gifts Of The Spirit, Spiritual Change

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

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

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

- Ray Bradbury

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

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Giving, Imagination, Soul, One With Nature, Imagination And Creativity

Children see magic because they look for it.

- Christopher Moore

source: Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.10, Harper Collins

topic: Life, Children, Magic, Children Education, Children Imagination

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

topic: Education, Lying, Escaping, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Real, Science, Skills, Solved Problems, Creative Problem Solving

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

- Antony Jay

source: Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Creative, Questions Asked, Answering Questions

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

- Frank Barron

topic: Carpe Diem, Average, Creative, Creative Person, Imagination Creativity

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

- Norman Podhoretz

topic: Children, Creativity, Carpe Diem, Children Playing, Coming Together

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

- William James

topic: Mean, Creativity, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

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

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Change, Encouragement, Freedom, Spiritual Awareness, Freedom Of Choice

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Critical Spirit, Imagination And Creativity

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love You, Carpe Diem, Imagination, Mid Summer Nights Dream, Midsummer Night's Dream

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

- Carl Jung

topic: Creativity, Play, Imagination, Mind Playing, Power Of Imagination

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

- Frank Capra

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

topic: Creativity, Positive Thinking, Intuition, Inspiration And Creativity, Instinct Intuition

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

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

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage, Creative People, Inspire Creativity

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Education, Creativity, School, Competitive Advantage, Multiplication

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Real, Creativity, Imagination, Innovative Leadership, Power Of Imagination

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Powerful, Creativity, Writing, Power Of Imagination, Creative Imagination

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

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

- Michelangelo

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