Great Imagination Quotes

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

Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.

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

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

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.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your 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.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

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.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

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

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

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

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

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

In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

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

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

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

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

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

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

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

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.

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.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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

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

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

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

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.

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

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.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had one of the great imaginations of the 20th century. One of the reasons why the tradition carries on, all these years later, is because, as a parent, those are the books that you go to and pull off the shelf because they never stop delighting you.